AvidBiotics Corp.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
By harnessing the natural killing power of pyocins, a class of proteins produced in bacteria that enable the bacteria to kill related species, AvidBiotics expects to develop a new generation of engineered antibacterial proteins.
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