Each month, our Policy and Public Affairs team will showcase how we are championing members’ voices in Government and Parliament.

In this guest blog, Paul Jeffrey, Director of the GFIL/Cranfield Technology Accelerator at Cranfield Water Science Institute, explains how engineering biology solutions for environmental applications face unclear and complex regulatory pathways.

Fermtech has raised £2.5m to scale Koji Cocoa™, a fermentation-based cocoa ingredient made from cocoa shells that delivers 25–33% cost savings and up to 98% lower carbon emissions.

This guest blog from Cam Watson, biosolutions startup advisor, draws on a broader analysis of Japan’s biosolutions ecosystem, examining company formation, corporate engagement, manufacturing capacity and growth-stage funding dynamics.

I’m pleased to share that we are part of a new Government and industry joint taskforce to drive innovation in the UK’s commercial environment for medicines, announced last week as part of government ambitions for the Life Sciences Strategy.

Biorecycling startup Epoch Biodesign announced that it has raised $12 million in a new funding round.

In this blog, Linda Bedenik, our Head of Biosolutions and International Policy, and Maddie Cass, our Policy and Public Affairs Manager, reflect on the tireless work they have done, and will continue to do, to propel innovative biosolutions in the UK nationally and across Europe.

In this blog, Jaime Eaton, reflects on this month's Community Connects series, bringing together diverse expertise to tackle the most pressing challenges in our sector.

There are a number of significant moving pieces right now in the sector, including the major strategic shift at UKRI and Innovate launched last Thursday.

BIA BioSolutions is here: a new strategic platform dedicated to championing the UK’s engineering biology ecosystem beyond health. Discover how we are bridging the gap between world-class science and industrial scale to drive global sustainability.

In this blog, Linda Bedenik, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager at BIA, explores Biosolutions, defining what they are and their potential to solve global challenges beyond health.

Our final blog of 2025 celebrates some excellent fundraising news to close the year, while highlighting key opportunities to engage with and shape the UK life sciences agenda — including the development of UK engineering biology, data policy, a cross-cancer research policy position and salary benchmarking.

Just one month after launch, five early-stage science companies have moved into the Leap incubator lab space at ARC West London. The first cohort of innovators joining Leap includes: Solveteq, Reseda Life Sciences, Tachmed, IgEDAPT, and Sea2Carbon.

London Life Sciences Week kicked off last night with a buzzing reception at Somerset House and we’re looking forward to a jam-packed week of networking and events. Great to see the incredible hard work from the BIA and L&P teams come to life – shining a global light on the incredible UK ecosystem. At the same time, we’re seeing the UK take a leading role in pro-innovation regulation, from last week’s enactment of the Precision Breeding Act to Lawrence Tallon’s insights on the MHRA’s proportionate, strategic future approach, and now need the government to invest in the sector and ensure the commercial environment enables the UK to build on this world-beating foundation.

BIA and Japan Bioindustry Association signed an MOU, agreeing to work together to connect the two countries’ life sciences and biotech ecosystems to accelerate medical innovation and the commercialisation of engineering biology.

MORF-Bio is delighted to announce the successful closing of its pre-seed funding round to accelerate development of its microbial bioinformatics software.

In this blog, Tom Sheldon, Senior Manager at the Science Media Centre (SMC), explores how scientists and communicators are taking on misinformation head-on — and how the SMC’s work supports both researchers and journalists in helping the public make sense of complex, and sometimes controversial, scientific issues.