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Lygos

Winter 2016 · Active

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

Location: San Francisco, US

Team size: 55

About

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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