Biotech startup Ayana Bio wants to make junk foods healthy. Here’s how.
August 8, 2023 The company, which opened a lab in the Seaport last month, creates lab-grown plant materials for commercial use.
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Ayana Bio opens a new plant cell-to-product lab
July 12, 2023 Ayana Bio’s plant cell technology is a means to create plant materials without growing plants in the ground. As we reported previously, the plant cell cultivation technology starts by identifying the best plant cell lines—just like traditional plant breeding.
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Ayana Bio opens "Plant Cell-to-Product Laboratory" for nutraceutical ingredients
July 13, 2023 Ayana Bio has opened a new "Plant Cell-to-Product Laboratory" in Boston Seaport to commercialise multiple cultivated wellness and nutrition ingredients
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Ayana Bio opens Boston facility
July 12, 2023 Ayana Bio has opened a new laboratory in Boston’s seaport district. The lab will serve as the company’s nucleus for formulating plant cell-cultivated production systems to formulate health, wellness and nutrition ingredients.
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Ayana Bio opens new lab for cacao bioactives
July 12, 2023 Ayana Bio, the plant cell technology company, opened a new lab in Boston’s Seaport District. The new laboratory space supports the expansion of plant cell-cultivated ingredients into the dietary supplement, food & beverage, and sports nutrition markets.
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Ayana Bio Launches New ‘Plant Cell-to-Product’ Laboratory in Boston’s Seaport District
July 13, 2023 Boston Seaport‘s burgeoning biotech landscape welcomes a significant addition with the opening of a state-of-the-art laboratory by Ayana Bio. The new facility, dubbed the ‘Plant Cell-to-Product’ lab, is set to commercialize a range of cultivated ingredients, pushing the boundaries of biotechnology.
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Ayana Bio Opens a New Plant Cell-to-Product Laboratory in Boston Seaport to Commercialize Multiple Cultivated Ingredients
July 12, 2023 The new laboratory space supports the expansion of plant cell-cultivated ingredients into the dietary supplement, food & beverage, and sports nutrition markets
READ THE ARTICLEAyana Bio and Robertet Unveil Functional Gummies with Plant Cell Cultivation Technology
May 22, 2023 Ayana Bio’s Plant Cell Advantage™ Lemon Balm and Echinacea-purpurea clean label gummy prototypes developed for SynBioBeta
READ THE ARTICLEAyana Bio’s Chief Science Advisor, Dr. Sarah O'Connor, Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
May 19, 2023 Dr. Sarah O'Connor, Director of Natural Product Biosynthesis, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, recognized for her significant contributions to scientific research
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Ayana Bio's Chief Science Advisor, Dr. Sarah O'Connor, Develops Tools to Better Understand Bioactive Biosynthesis
May 17, 2023 Li et al.'s multi-pronged study generated high-quality genome sequence, chromatin assembly, single-cell transcriptomics, and single-cell metabolomics data that aided the discovery of a missing enzyme and transporter involved in the biosynthesis of anticancer molecules. This breakthrough will advance the field of plant-based medicine.
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Ayana Bio unveils first ingredients made using plant cell culture as cracks show in strained botanical supply chain
April 19, 2023 Ayana Bio has launched its first ingredients (lemon balm and echinacea) made via plant cell culture, an approach it claims can provide a consistent supply of botanicals without the supply chain headaches associated with traditional agriculture.
READ THE ARTICLEAyana Bio launches plant cell-derived echinacea & lemon balm
April 19, 2023 Boston-based plant cell tech company Ayana Bio has announced the first-ever launch of plant cell-cultivated lemon balm and echinacea ingredients, to use in supplement formulations for sleep, mood, and immune support.
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Ayana Bio launches “first-ever” plant cell-cultivated lemon balm and echinacea
April 19, 2023 The process will yield products with the same bioactive composition of conventionally-grown botanicals and can directly replace their counterparts in food supplements for sleep, mood and immune support, says the plant cell technology company.
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Ayana Bio Launches First Plant Cell-Derived Health and Wellness Ingredients
Boston, April 19 Ayana Bio, the plant cell technology company making sustainable bioactives for consumer products, today announced the first-ever launch of plant cell-cultivated lemon balm and echinacea health and wellness ingredients, starting with the U.S. market. These products have the bioactive composition of conventionally-grown botanicals and can directly replace lemon balm and echinacea in dietary supplement formulations for sleep, mood and immune support.
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The role of ingredients in the future of the industry
February 9, 2023 To understand how we can feed and nourish the planet and her people, Agatha Wong speaks with Frank Jaksch, CEO of Ayana Bio, to understand how ingredients play a crucial role in shaping the food and beverage industry. See p. 34-35 of the publication.
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Ayana Bio invests $3M to create healthy ingredients from chocolate
January 19, 2023 The biological research company will cultivate polyphenol-rich cacao cells to add nutrition to a variety of food and drink items — but will not make candy.
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Ayana Bio leverages cellular cultivation to extract high-value cacao polyphenols to fortify F&B
January 19, 2023 Plant cell tech firm Ayana Bio is pledging US$3 million to accelerate cacao bioactive production using cellular cultivation, part of a strategy to boost efforts in curbing the many challenges plaguing the cacao industry, such as climate change, deforestation and child labor.
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Ayana Bio targets cacao bioactives production, ‘upgrades’ plant cell culture with synthetic biology and metabolomics
January 18, 2023 Ayana Bio – one of a new wave of startups seeking to unlock the potential of plant cell culture in the food and nutrition industry – is turning its attention to cacao bioactives with a $3m investment it claims will also benefit the wider industry.
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Ayana Bio Pledges $3M to Accelerate Cacao Bioactive Production Using Cellular Cultivation
January 18, 2023 The initiative uses biotechnology to sustainably produce cacao bioactives and support genetic research to improve cacao plant varieties.
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Key trends for 2023’s food and drink industries
January 4, 2023 With the last several years including a series of unprecedented events and challenges, Food Manufacture seeks the expertise of several food and drink leaders to find out what’s on the cards for 2023. Ayana Bio's CEO, Frank Jaksch, on trends regarding health beneficial products.
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Front cover story - Ayana Bio’s CEO Frank Jaksch in an interview with the Orange County Business Journal
September 27, 2022 In an interview with the Orange County Business Journal, our CEO Frank Jaksch discusses how Ayana Bio accesses plant molecules that people have long co-opted as medicines and nutritional supplements. “Grow[ing] plants without having to grow plants,” complements traditional agriculture and bolsters supply chains hard hit by climate change and overharvest.
READ THE ARTICLEHow Ayana Bio will use science and technology to make more nutritious ingredients
August 25, 2022 As he takes the helm of the Ginkgo Bioworks spinoff, CEO Frank Jaksch said its plant cell culture tech to create bioactive compounds from ginseng, berries, cocoa and ginger could be a game changer.
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Frank Jaksch joins Ayana Bio as CEO: ‘I’m really excited about being back in the exploration mode’
August 24, 2022 Plant cell technology company and Ginkgo Bioworks spin off Ayana Bio has appointed ChromaDex founder and former CEO Frank Jaksch as its new CEO.
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Ayana Bio appointed Frank Jaksch as CEO
August 24, 2022 Ayana Bio, the plant cell technology company making sustainable bioactives for consumer products, today announced the appointment of Frank Jaksch as the company's Chief Executive Officer.
READ THE ARTICLEAyana Bio Announces Appointment of Frank Jaksch as Chief Executive Officer
August 24, 2022 Health and wellness industry veteran will lead the company to scale sustainable bioactives using plant cell technology instead of agriculture.
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Engineering Plant Bioactive Diversity
August 11, 2022 Iridoids can be found in thousands of bioactives from plants. But the ones most often found in nature make up only about a fourth of what is possible in theory. The work presented in this text--from the laboratory of Prof. Sarah O’Connor, Ayana Bio’s Chief Science Advisor--opens up the possibility of producing iridoids with geometries not often found in nature. These new molecules may have unique and interesting properties.
READ THE ARTICLEAyana Bio's Chief Science Advisor Unlocks One of the Longest-standing Biochemical Mysteries in Plants
July 6, 2022 Prof. Sarah O’Connor and her team uncovered enzymes that complete the bioactive pathways of strychnine, diaboline, and brucine--molecules whose biosynthesis has eluded the broader scientific community for over 200 years. Her team then expressed the enzymes they identified in Nicotiana benthamiana to reconstitute the pathways in a living system as a case study to show that complex phytochemicals can be produced from a biotech chassis.
READ THE ARTICLEAyana Bio Launch Press Release
September 9, 2021 Ginkgo Bioworks ("Ginkgo"), which is building the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, today announced the launch of Ayana Bio to enable a healthier future by harnessing bioactive compounds for use as complementary medicine to support human health and wellness.
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