Sanger Institute Spin-Out Microbiotica To Evaluate Bacterial Mixes
Executive Summary
The UK Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s latest spin-out has received start-up funding to exploit more than six years of gut bacterial genome sequencing in order to develop novel bacteria-based therapies for a range of diseases.
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