Lau­ra Shawver hits the ground run­ning, scout­ing new in­vestors for tiny Syn­thorx

Syn­thorx doesn’t make the news a lot. But when it does, it makes sure peo­ple pay at­ten­tion.

The syn­thet­ic bi­ol­o­gy start­up came out with two big an­nounce­ments this week: Lau­ra Shawver is tak­ing its helm as CEO, pres­i­dent and di­rec­tor; sci­en­tif­ic founder Floyd Romes­berg has pub­lished a pa­per in Na­ture dis­cussing how a se­mi-syn­thet­ic or­gan­ism can trans­late DNA with two ad­di­tion­al bases (X and Y) in­to nov­el pro­teins.

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