Ginkgo Bioworks
A biotech startup working with organisms - and helping U.S. Soldiers along the way
Ginko Bioworks, the Boston-based biotech startup making all sorts of scents and flavors from micro bugs. Ginkgo currently makes products for the flavor, fragrance and food industries as well as works with DARPA to produce probiotics that will help U.S. soldiers stave off stomach bugs they might pick up overseas but started looking at expanding to other industries last year.