Researchers opened the doors Monday to the new Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, a collaboration between the Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington.
The hub combines “academic creativity with startup-style industrial execution,” said Jesse Gray, senior director of scientific operations and strategy, who was previously head of discovery at gene editing startup Ascidian Therapeutics.
The hub’s first main goal is to build a “biological recorder mouse,” enabling researchers to track biological actions such as cell divisions and molecular signaling in a live mouse across time.