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TAXA Biotechnologies

We enable cheaper, faster, and better genetic engineering of plants.…

Summer 2014Healthcare / Healthcare -> Consumer Health and WellnessSan Francisco, CA, USA2 employees
Agriculture
Genetic Engineering
Biotechnology

About

The TAXA platform has been specifically designed to enable anyone to perform metabolic engineering of plants without stepping into a lab. We provide access to protein engineering, DNA assembly, transient experiments and stable transformation as a service. The best thing is that anything "Powered by TAXA" is designed to be free from expensive regulatory approval, meaning the products are available for sale or distribution to consumers in the United States immediately after they are developed. For a detailed list of the experiments which can be run on our platform please see the Services page. Our vision is a world where bio-engineering is as easy and commonplace as mobile application development is today. Game-changing technologies, like genetic engineering, should not be the exclusive preserve of large corporations and a wealthy elite. Democratizing the tools of creation enables anyone, anywhere, to genetically engineer plants and will unleash a wave of creativity to power an environment where ultimately what we create is limited only by our imagination. The TAXA platform is our next step in the realization of that dream We are also the team behind the first synthetic biology crowdfunding project, raising $484k on Kickstarter to make real glowing plants: www.glowingplant.com

Founders (1)

Antony Evans
Founder/CEO

Details

Status
Inactive
Stage
Early
Team Size
2
Regions
United States of America, America / Canada