Tag: Bio
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You Can Just Program Biology
The Information Age was a consequence of two developments: the ability to work with information programmatically and the democratization of that capability. We are now entering a similar period in biology. We can now program life itself with the ever cheaper tools of synthetic biology. We believe this era of…
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Humane Genomics
We recently announced our first biotech investment at USV in a company called Humane Genomics. They engineer viruses that can be made to selectively infect different kinds of cells. To start, they’re focused on viruses that kill cancer cells (“oncolytic viruses”). The first oncolytic viral therapy to be approved in…
Matthew Mandel 