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Ginkgo Bioworks and Agricen Enter Collaboration to Optimize Manufacturing Processes for a Key Agricultural Soil Amendment
Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA, "Ginkgo"), a provider of research and development services and tools for biological product development and Agricen, a leader in the development and commercialization of novel biological and soil amendment solutions for plant nutrition and health, today announced the successful completion of their initial collaboration to develop and optimize a low-cost, efficient fermentation process for complex bacterial strains used as a component in one of Agricen's soil amendment
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