A medical startup devoted to identifying useful drugs from the ocean.
"Recent scientific studies reveal that well over 99% of life on our planet is microbial. This microbial “dark matter” or Global Microbiome, is enormous and found not only within us (the human microbiome) but all around us. With no teeth, scales, traditional nervous systems or immunity, these organisms rely exclusively on complex chemistry to communicate, mediate their environments and even control their hosts. This chemical language is ancient, highly evolved and incredibly nuanced and diverse, and is a vastly untapped source of potential starting points for new medicines.
Starting with the ocean, the place where microbial life and the resulting chemical diversity is greatest, Sirenas has been on a mission to collect and catalog our planet’s greatest chemical diversity, and we’ve developed the team and technology to efficiently mine and translate this extraordinary resource into groundbreaking new discoveries for the most pressing unmet medical needs."
http://sirenasmd.com/
"Recent scientific studies reveal that well over 99% of life on our planet is microbial. This microbial “dark matter” or Global Microbiome, is enormous and found not only within us (the human microbiome) but all around us. With no teeth, scales, traditional nervous systems or immunity, these organisms rely exclusively on complex chemistry to communicate, mediate their environments and even control their hosts. This chemical language is ancient, highly evolved and incredibly nuanced and diverse, and is a vastly untapped source of potential starting points for new medicines.
Starting with the ocean, the place where microbial life and the resulting chemical diversity is greatest, Sirenas has been on a mission to collect and catalog our planet’s greatest chemical diversity, and we’ve developed the team and technology to efficiently mine and translate this extraordinary resource into groundbreaking new discoveries for the most pressing unmet medical needs."
http://sirenasmd.com/