| 9/8/2021 |
EnteroBiotix secures $21.5M series A to advance microbiome drug pipeline |
FierceBiotech |
... said.Established in 2017, EnteroBiotix is just one of many companies that has emerged to hunt for new medicines that might impact the microbiome. From 2015 to 2020, venture capitalists poured $1 billion into microbiome startups , according to Crunchbase .RELATED: Microbiome startups promise to improve your gut health, but is the science solid?The biotech has also established a subsidiary operation called Number 2, which gathers and tests donated intestinal ... |
| 8/27/2021 |
Gut microbiome startups like Viome, uBiome promise they can improve your gut health, but consumers should be cautious - Chicago Sun-Times |
suntimes.com |
... long waits with no communication from the company, samples being rejected because of shipping or lab processing snafus.VIOME CEO Naveen Jain took to Facebook to apologize in late July.The nascent industry of microbiome startups offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds of dollars for tests not covered by insurance, hoping to get answers to health problems ... |
| 8/26/2021 |
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? |
Physicians Weekly |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/26/2021 |
Microbiome startups promise to improve your gut health, but Is the science solid? |
dnyuz.com |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria—collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds of ... |
| 8/26/2021 |
Microbiome startups promise to improve your gut health, but is the science solid? |
arcamax.com |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July.Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud.The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/25/2021 |
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? |
Kaiser Health News |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/25/2021 |
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? |
veritynewsnow.com |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/25/2021 |
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? |
thereliablenews.com |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/25/2021 |
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? |
shepherdgazette.com |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/25/2021 |
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? |
fiorreports.com |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/25/2021 |
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? |
ottawasown.com |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/25/2021 |
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? |
americanhealthcarejournal.com |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/23/2021 |
Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? |
californiahealthline.org |
... was rejected because it “leaked.”) The company’s CEO, Naveen Jain, took to Facebook to apologize in late July. Viome’s troubles provide a cautionary tale for consumers in the wild west of microbiome startups , which have been alternately hailed for health breakthroughs and indicted for fraud. The nascent industry offers individualized diet regimens based on analyzing gut bacteria — collectively known as the gut microbiome. Consumers pay hundreds ... |
| 8/23/2021 |
Monday, August 23, 2021 |
californiahealthline.org |
California Healthline Daily Edition Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Monday, Aug 23 2021 California Healthline Original Stories 1 Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid? News Of The Day Coronavirus 5 Vaccine and Mask Mandates 3 Schools and Universities 7 Vaccine Rollout 4 Gubernatorial Recall Race 4 Wildfires 2 Public Health 1 Latest From California Healthline: California Healthline Original Stories ... |
| 7/1/2021 |
Seres, Nestlé to Jointly Commercialize Microbiome Agent |
pharmalive.com |
... includes the use of fecal microbial transplants. Currently, there is no microbiome therapies approved for any indications, which has created an unmet need recognized by an ever-growing list of pharmaceutical companies partnering with microbiome startups . Seres’s investigational SER-109 includes purified Firmicutes spores; the rationale for including these spores is “based on their modulatory role in the life cycle of C. difficile and disease pathogenesis,” according to ... |
| 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 ... |