| 4/17/2021 |
Fecal microbiota potentiate checkpoint inhibitors, unleash microbiome startups |
truemedian.com |
Fecal microbiota potentiate checkpoint inhibitors, unleash microbiome startups By SubscribeTwo papers published in Science provide the first clinical evidence that fecal microbial transplants (FMTs) can boost the anti-cancer efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors. At least eight microbiome companies have launched first-in-human trials pairing their microbiome agents with approved immunotherapies (Table 1) to satisfy the growing need to increase the proportion of patients responding to checkpoint inhibitors ... |
| 11/5/2020 |
ADM Ventures investing in microbiome |
feedstuffs.com |
... that its investing in Seventure’s Health For Life Capital (HFLC) Fund II, a leading venture capital fund dedicated to health, nutrition, microbiota and digital health.“We view Seventure as the premier investor in microbiome startups focused on human health and nutrition, and since 2018, ADM has worked closely with the Seventure team to identify opportunities with microbiome solutions that can ultimately help with dietary supplements and food and beverage ... |
| 10/6/2020 |
Federation Bio goes live with $50M to pursue microbial treatments |
FierceBiotech |
... based obesity drug moves toward trials Federation Bio started out based on unpublished research from Stanford University professors Michael Fischbach, Ph.D., and Dylan Dodd, M.D., Ph.D. Venrock, which had passed up chances to fund microbiome startups in the past, recognized the professors’ work as a “seismic shift” in how people and companies have approached the space, said Racquel Bracken, a partner at Venrock and the founding CEO of Federation. The ... |
| 6/30/2020 |
Microbes as Medicine: How our Microbiome Could Help Cure Cancer |
Medium |
... our health is intertwined with the trillions of microbes which also inhabit our bodies. Next we looked at how the falling cost of DNA sequencing and other technical advances spawned a massive wave of microbiome startups , many in the medical sector. What are these startups working on, and what has led investors to pour over $4.5B into microbiome-based diagnostics and therapeutics companies ? The short answer: curing disease. Recent findings ... |
| 10/29/2019 |
These 9 startups are betting that your gut is healthcare's next frontier, with millions in backing from investors like Marc Benioff and Vinod Khosla |
Business Insider |
... capitalize on insights from our gut. Click here for more BI Prime stories . Can the data from our guts be turned into a useful health product? That was the premise of two high-profile microbiome startups that shut down in recent months. To some researchers and investors, the failures suggested that it was simply too early to turn insights about the community of bacteria living in and on us into ... |
| 7/16/2019 |
Mining the Microbiome: Microbiome startups are proliferating, exploring new markets, and colonizing diverse therapeutic niches - Clinical OMICs News |
clinicalomics.com |
It would be hard to find an area of health where the microbiome has not been implicated as a major player. The microbiome is there even before birth, influencing maternal-child health outcomes, and it lingers, in a fashion, even after death. In between, the microbiome contributes to health, maintaining the gut-brain axis and interacting with the immune system. It also plays a role in many diseases, including metabolic ... |
| 4/26/2019 |
The FBI searched the offices of microbiome startup uBiome |
TechCrunch |
... a crowdfunded startup that raised $350,000 to begin developing testing for microbiome health to a company that reportedly raised $83 million last year . As uBiome faces potential legal troubles with the federal government, other microbiome startups are also struggling. Earlier this week, Arivale, a company that used a combination of genetic and microbiome testing and coaching to improve long-term consumer health, was forced to shut down its “consumer program ... |