Twist Bioscience is a public
biotechnology company based in
South San Francisco
South San Francisco is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The city is colloquially known as "South City". The population was 66,105 at the 2020 census. ...
that manufactures
synthetic DNA and
DNA products for customers in a wide range of industries.
Twist was founded in 2013 by
Emily Leproust, Bill Banyai, and Bill Peck.
The company was represented by Leproust at a March 2021 tabletop exercise at the
Munich Security Conference
The Munich Security Conference (MSC; german: Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz) is an annual conference on international security policy that has been held in Munich, Bavaria, Germany since 1963. Former names are ''Wehrkundetagung'' and ''Münchner ...
simulating an outbreak of weaponized
monkeypox
Monkeypox (also called mpox by the WHO) is an infectious viral disease that can occur in humans and some other animals. Symptoms include fever, swollen lymph nodes, and a rash that forms blisters and then crusts over. The time from exposure t ...
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Companies based in South San Francisco, California
American companies established in 2013