Proud to announce the launch of ZBiotics™: the world's first genetically engineered probiotic.
Engineered to act like your liver, breaking down an unwanted byproduct of alcohol and helping you feel better the day after drinking. Now available at .
The primary ingredient is ZBiotics is B. subtilis ZB183™.
This is a patented probiotic bacterial strain we invented called Bacillus subtilis ZB183. We invented it by taking a base strain of B. subtilis and engineering it to produce an enzyme that breaks down acetaldehyde.
ZBiotics 2023 Kickoff! The whole team met in-person to discuss this year’s goals. We also got to hangout in our new lab in Sunnyvale, CA!
We can’t wait to see what this year has in store. Thank you for following along.
We hit our 45-day goal in just 4 hours! After a whirlwind Day 1, we have been astounded by the support. HUGE thank you to our Day-1 backers!
Even more excited now for how far we can take this. If you haven't visited yet, check out the campaign:
Check out our CEO Zack Abbott speaking at the American Society of Microbiology conference last month about using your microbiology PhD in the world of entrepreneurship!
Money for startups is booming, & there has never been a better time to be a microbiologist in the world of entrepreneurship.
There are many opportunities to use your microbiology training to have a direct impact on the world! cc
@ZBioticsCompany
Today, we are feeling grateful and happy to announce the completion of a $2.3M seed funding round.
Thank you to our customers, investors, and our team.
Excited for our whole team to attend
@SynBioBeta
this year! Kudos to
@johncumbers
and his team for adapting to the times with this great conference. Digitally or in person, we're psyched to be part of the synbio community.
#SynBioBeta2020
ZBiotics is on a mission. We’re building a new category of products, with ingredients that address the things that get in the way of us living the healthiest and fullest lifestyle we can.
Your support has helped us work toward this mission. Thank you and happy new year!
We’ve spent the last month listening, learning, and laying the groundwork for how we do our part and ensure that ZBiotics continues to grow as an anti-racist company. That process starts with the commitments laid out in our ZBiotics Racial Justice Pledge.
Everyone at ZBiotics absolutely loved the calendar! Splendid images and super interesting fun facts about each protein! 10/10 would recommend downloading 🗓
To celebrate 50 years of the PDB archive in 2021, the wwPDB has created a joint calendar with images submitted from
@PDBeurope
,
@buildmodels
,
@PDBj_en
& BMRB, including images from the
#PDBArt
project and
@dsgoodsell
. View and download it at
Wishing everyone the best from all of us here at Team ZB: Kat, Zack, Kelechi, Dev, Stephen, and John. Remember to stay safe, support those who can't work from home, and help flatten the curve.
#wfh
#flatternthecurve
ZBiotics is composed of bioengineered Bacillus subtilis. While we’re psyched about what we engineer these bacteria to do, we also want everyone to know how amazing these microbes already are! Every week we will be sharing B. subtilis fun facts, celebrating our favorite microbe💛
Excited for ZBiotics CEO Zack Abbott to sit down and talk about changing consumer perceptions of
#GMO
at
#synbiobeta2019
with Sarah Evanega of Cornell Alliance for Science
@ScienceAlly
.
Just in time for the big game this weekend, we're so excited to be rolling out 2-Hour Delivery within the city of San Francisco! Thanks to
@Postmates
for partnering with us to make this happen. Order now on .
In conversation with
@neoplants
. Learn about our shared missions of using innovative technologies for good.
Here is our full length conversation with Neoplant's Co-Founder Patrick Torbey!
This past weekend marks 1 year since we launched ZBiotics. We remain incredibly proud to have brought the first-ever genetically engineered probiotic to market. But hearing stories of people using ZBiotics to live fuller, healthier lives has truly been the most rewarding.
Yesterday, ZBiotics CEO Zack Abbott was on a panel at SynBioBeta with Charles Denby, the CEO of Berkeley Yeast and, Mark Colburn, the founder of Shinerunner Craft Marketing talking about crafting brands that every technophile and tree hugger will love moderated by
@scitechkevin
.
ZBiotics is hiring for the role of Director of Growth Marketing!
This position is based in San Francisco. However, remote work will be considered for the right candidate.
Job description:
Congratulations to
@azitrainc
and
@twhitfill
for completing their Series A funding! The future of engineered skin bio-therapeutics looks bright!
#SynBio
#GMO
Excited to share we've completed a meaningful round of financing for
@azitrainc
. Forever humbled by the support and the growing team we've assembled. On to big things in 2020!
This Wednesday Zack will be speaking at the 7th Microbiome Movement!
We are looking forward to learning from other companies about how they are making advancements in microbiome research and development.
ZBiotics R&D creates and tests new probiotic strains every week. When we're finished working with a new strain, we store it in a biological freezer at -80ºC. We suspend the strains in glycerol.
Why is it that food labels, designed to inform, often end up confusing us instead? And why does our team choose to put “Proudly GMO” on our bottles, especially where there is a rush towards placing “non-GMO” on everything?
ttps://zbiotics.com/blogs/journal/beyond-the-buzzwords
Our cofounders wrote a letter to showcase some of the major successes we had in 2023, as well as the exciting updates we have in store next year. We're thrilled to share big news with you, and thank you for supporting us on this journey.
Speaking the language of our microbiome...
Just published in mSystems: research contributed to by our Head of R&D – Dr. John W. K. Oliver – during his postdoc at Harvard Medical School with the Wyss Institute.
During times like these - when science communication has never been more important - we want to
#tbt
to the early 2000’s and Drew Endy and Isadora Deese’s comic on Synthetic Biology. 🧬👨🔬👩🔬
#synbio
Artist Sandra Black Culliton
@sbculliton
is a scientist who combines art and microbiology in forms that are true-to-life.
This beautiful work depicts the amino acid sequence for the specific acetaldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme our 1st product is engineered to produce.
Scientists at Rice University have engineered E.coli to produce a ‘non-canonical’ amino acid (5-hydroxyl-tryptophan) as the 21st Amino Acid building block.
Image: Graphical Abstract from the research paper.
We are officially sold out!
For those of you who are our customers already, we hate not being there for you right now.
For those of you who are not yet our customers, we are so sorry to make you wait longer to experience ZBiotics for the first time.
This week's
@talkingbiotech
podcast- A biotech solution to limit the effects of a few too many...
@ZBioticsCompany
creates a
#GMO
probiotic that plans to give you a more productive day after overdoing it.
The human microbiome is a hot topic...
But it's challenging to find accurate information on what exactly the human microbiome does and why it is so important to our health. That's why we got to writing:
Everything you'll need for Thanksgiving.
So you can enjoy drinks tonight, and be up early to prep for tomorrow’s feast. Order today with the discount code "THANKS" for 10% off ZBiotics. Offer ends in a week!
Paper of the week: Cholesterol Metabolism by Uncultured Human Gut Bacteria Influences Host Cholesterol Level.
What’s cool: Discovery of a microbial gene that can potentially reduce serum cholesterol levels.
Great initiative by team
@Foldit
If you are working from home and need a break, try out this game and help discover new proteins for screening against
#coronavirus
We support
#CitizenScience
#citsci
Very proud to announce the issuance of our first patent: a milestone in our company's growth and a point of pride in the work by our R&D team. This one covers our first product, while laying the groundwork for our future pipeline.
Congratulations to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the revolutionary CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tools!
Check out our new blog post!
Our CEO, Zack Abbott, PhD writes about how alcohol is metabolized in our bodies (citations included)!
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗹: 𝗔𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗹 𝟭𝟬𝟭, 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭.
Researchers find four new bacterial strains isolated from the International Space Station belonging to the Methylobacteriaceae family. One of the strains was isolated from a HEPA filter!
New interview of ZBiotics CEO Zack Abbott by The Future Tech Podcast. Thanks
@FuturetechP
!
Probiotic Problem Solving – Engineering Probiotic Solutions for Health Problems and Health Protections.
Zack Abbott spoke at
@SynBioBeta
marking the 6th year we’ve been included in the conference. Zack shared how we built the world’s first genetically engineered probiotic and brought it to market. We remain incredibly grateful for the opportunity to tell our story.
@johncumbers