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Lygos

Lygos engineers yeast to convert sugar into high-value industrial…

y-combinatorWinter 2016Synthetic BiologyClimateBiotech🇺🇸 San Francisco55 people
Eric Steen

Eric Steen · 1 founder

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Founded in 2010, Lygos is providing biotechnology solutions for today’s renewable chemical challenges. They engineer microbes to convert sugars into high-value, industrial chemicals, targeting compounds where biological production is cost-advantaged over petrochemical production.

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