We are officially in the IndieBio accelerator program!
Thanks to the amazing support and enthusiasm we received from the community through the Experiment.com platform, our team was offered an incredible opportunity to join the IndieBio synthetic biology accelerator program in Cork, Ireland. The additional seed funding we received ($50,000) should allow us to make some great progress not only on the algal insulin work, but also in developing our own platform technology to express other orally deliverable therapeutics, like fish vaccines for the pet fish industry and for aquaculture farms. This is how our startup, Microsynbiotix was born.
Above: fresh stocks of Chlorella vulgariis and chlamydomonas reinhardtii being subcultured in the IndieBio laboratory in Cork, Ireland.
We are using Benchling (our official research platform) to document our attempts at modifying a classic tris-acetate phosphate (TAP) medium to see if we can maximize algal growth.
Though we are trying to create a sustainable business with the technology we are developing, we are staying true to our original promise to make our algal insulin project open source. This portion of our experimental work will always be freely available to the community as a sign of our gratitude for their generous support in making our startup possible.
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