Tag Archives: microbiome

Birth: An Epic Day Of Bacterial Invasion
August 18, 2016

This post was written by JC Gutierrez-Ramos, CEO of Synlogic, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC. When I was a graduate student, I listened to the famous developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert say, “It is not birth

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The White House’s National Microbiome Initiative: My Reflections
June 2, 2016

This blog was written by JC Gutierrez-Ramos, CEO of Synlogic, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC.   Despite being central to life on earth, we know little about how microbes interact with each other, their hosts and

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Synthetic Biology Meets The Microbiome: Synlogic
October 7, 2014

Today Synlogic announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joined the Series A financing to help power up its platform around developing therapeutic microbes (here).  Combining compelling elements of two exciting fields – engineering organisms with synthetic biology and

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