Engineering biology

Advances in Engineering Biology, or synthetic biology, are unlocking a new industrial revolution in ‘AI for Science’ to address economic, environmental, and societal needs

What is Engineering biology? Engineering Biology is an emerging discipline of biotechnology with disruptive potential across all industries – whether addressing the climate crisis through biodegradable products and novel strategies for re-capturing carbon, or enabling new drugs and therapies that unlock unparalleled levels of personalized medicine.

Also known as ‘synthetic biology,’ engineering biology leverages the latest forms of Generative and Agentic AI, with other innovative technologies and engineering principles, to radically reduce the time and cost of realizing biotech solutions. From life sciences to manufacturing, pharmaceuticals to consumer goods, the applications for engineering biology are helping leading organizations realize truly disruptive and awe-inspiring ways to enhance their businesses.

At Capgemini Invent, over the past decade we have built a highly unusual set of scientific, engineering, computational and advisory skills to help clients navigate the E2E process of identifying, creating and launching new Biosolutions.

“From practical biological development to scale-up engineering and advisory services, our biotech experts can help your business realize sustainable, lasting transformation through engineering biology methods and solutions, through the entire E2E process.”

Applications of engineering biology

Across all industries, synthetic biology is changing the world in new and powerful ways.

How we can help: accelerating your bioeconomy journey

At Capgemini Invent we help clients successfully navigate the end-to-end journey, from creating a compelling new biotechnology vision, to practical breakthrough product realization and commercial impact.

We guide visionary start-ups and large multinationals alike in creating and implementing a bioeconomy strategy. Our expertise spans ‘engineered’ synthetic biology, protein synthesis, metabolic engineering, physical scale-up engineering, digital twinning and AI. Facilities include state-of-the-art, AI-driven biotechnology labs, engineering facilities, and a server farm to solve the toughest technical and scientific challenges.

Additionally, our biotech consultants will help you explore opportunities, build business and sustainability cases, test feasibility, and manage your innovation budget and timescale for highest business impact.

Engineering Biology labs

Building on 10 years of pioneering engineering biology and AI development, Capgemini has created state-of-the-art AI-driven biotechnology labs, situated at the headquarters of subsidiary, Cambridge Consultants, in the UK. Home to an unrivalled combination of multidisciplinary experts across biology, chemistry, engineering, data science and beyond, we have created innovative biosolutions such as a ‘plastic eating enzyme’, a DNA-based data storage machine and engineered nitrogen-fixing microbes for better seed shelf-life in agriculture. With deep synthetic biology expertise, we are particularly adept at making bio-engineering more predictable, and hence unlocking viable business cases in sectors ranging from healthcare, through to consumer and industrial.

With our engineering biology lab and deep industry expertise, we are uniquely placed to help clients identify new opportunities, reduce cost and time to accelerate their bio-journey.

Engineering biology

For more information about how you can implement Engineering or Synthetic Biology to gain a competitive advantage, please fill out the form below and one of our biotechnology experts will be in touch.

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