Microbiotica: Wellcome Spin-Out Exploits Unique Microbe Collection
Executive Summary
Emerging Company Profile: Microbiotica, a UK biotech spin-out from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announced late last year, says it has unique capabilities in culturing and sequencing the human bacterial microbiome that will be of use to develop bacterial mixes for therapeutic use.
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