Again acquires Geno to advance biomanufacturing at scale with AI design
Denmark-based LuaBio ApS, operating as Again, today announced the acquisition of Genomatica Inc. to combine the company’s cutting-edge biomanufacturing capabilities with Geno’s artificial intelligence discovery and design platform for biomolecules.
Again co-locates modular bioreactors that use specially engineered microbes alongside industrial carbon dioxide emitters that feed waste gas directly into fermentation equipment rather than transport and sort the gas to distant facilities.
The company’s work involves using bacteria as living chemical factories. It uses a strain of CO2-fixing Moorella bacteria and AI-guided design to have them produce specialized enzymes that exchange CO2 and hydrogen for acetate, acetic acid and related derivatives.
These raw materials can be purified and refined into feedstock input for industries such as adhesives, solvents, plastics, textiles and cosmetics. As a result, any commercial-scale CO2 producer can be turned into a recycling point that lowers lifecycle emissions and can replace fossil-derived materials.
