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b.next

b.next is a San Francisco biotechnology company building Nucleus, an open-source platform and toolkit for engineering synthetic cells and cell-free systems from scratch. Founded in 2023 by Anton Jackson-Smith, it works with university labs, governments and philanthropic funders to make synthetic-cell engineering shared rather than proprietary.

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Business model
Biotech (synthetic cell platform + grants)
Founders
Anton Jackson-Smith

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The team on Day One

Anton Jackson Smith Founder, b.next “Imagine if you built a car and every time you took it out of the garage, something had changed just overnight. That's biology right now.” 1 episode →

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11 April 2025 · Diaspora NZ S3 | E6 Anton Jackson Smith (Founder of b.next) on building synthetic cells, programmable biology, and the future of biotech Anton Jackson Smith

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