zymobiotech

Zymobiotech, based in Wuhan, uses Zymomonas mobilis as a chassis cell to carry out the rational design and efficient construction of microbial cell factories, promoting theoretical research in synthetic biology and facilitating the development of practical applications, thereby contributing to the bioeconomy and dual carbon goals. Based on systems and synthetic biology, the company accelerates "building for application" while pursuing "building for understanding." On one hand, it designs chassis cells by modifying and optimizing genomes, expanding the gene-editing toolkit, mining systems biology data, linking phenotypes to genotypes, and constructing model frameworks to guide the design of cell factories. On the other hand, it tests constructed strains using various non-food, low-cost raw materials like straw to produce polyols such as ethanol and isobutanol from cellulose, establishing a platform for large-scale polyol production. Currently, the company has proprietary intellectual property rights over biological components, metabolic modules, enzyme engineering platforms, gene-editing tools, strain optimization and identification platforms, cellular models, and databases, making comprehensive arrangements in the "Design-Build-Test-Learn" core cycle of synthetic biology.