Optimvia and ginkgo bioworks announce partnership to manufacture biosynthetic heparin

Boston and cincinnati , jan. 6, 2022 /prnewswire/ -- optimvia, a biotechnology company specializing in engineering enzymes and their cofactors to synthesize complex therapeutic molecules, and ginkgo bioworks (nyse: dna), the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, today announced a partnership to improve the manufacturing efficiency of biosynthetic heparin, an essential medicine currently produced from industrial animal agriculture. under the partnership, optimvia seeks to leverage ginkgo's cell and enzyme engineering platform, as well as its fermentation process development expertise, to rapidly improve the performance of optimvia's biosynthetic heparin manufacturing technology.
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