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Bridging the scale-up gap for UK engineering biology

As UK startups face a critical scale-up bottleneck, the Earlham Biofoundry is providing the automation, infrastructure and specialist expertise to translate laboratory breakthroughs into commercial-scale biomanufacturing.

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