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Maker of the world's 1st genetically engineered probiotics. Purpose-built to help our bodies handle the diets and environments of modern life.

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@ZBioticsCompany
ZBiotics
5 years
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 .
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We have officially sold over 2,000,000 bottles of ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic. Cheers to 2 million better mornings!
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ZBiotics
1 year
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.
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5 years
We would like to take a minute and thank our CEO Zack Abbott for being the coolest Boss! #NationalBossDay #WorldBossDay
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4 years
How it started: How it’s going:
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2 years
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.
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6 years
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:
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7 years
Great news about YC starting a #biotech track. Here's to getting more #SynBio startups launched and funded!
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5 years
#TBT to when co-founder/CEO Zack Abbott spoke at ASM Microbe 2019 ( @ASMicrobiology 's annual conference) about how more microbiologists can be using their PhDs to found or join startups. #startups #microbiology #PhD #ASMicrobe
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“What happened when I tested my hangover prototype in 200+ people” by Zack Abbott #synbio #hangover #microbiology
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5 years
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
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6 years
ZBiotics crowdfunding campaign LAUNCHED: Help us on our mission to use modern biotechnology to solve everyday problems. Thank you!
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6 years
It's out: USDA releases the Final Rule of the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. #synbio #gmo
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4 years
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
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6 years
ZBiotics’ founder Zack Abbott presenting at the Alcohol Hangover Research Group’s annual meeting in Utrecht. #ahrg2018 @alcoholHRG
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6 years
New blog post! "'Bioengineered' or 'GMO?' The Impact of Mandatory Labeling"
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6 years
Pretty awesome video about SynBio. Props to @johncumbers for sharing. Excited for @SynBioBeta next month!
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4 years
Honoured to be chosen as a finalist in this year’s @FastCompany World Changing Ideas Awards.
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4 years
Last day in the old office...this sardine can has been good to us :’) #movinup
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5 years
┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ In this ┃╱╱╲╲ house ╱╱╭╮╲╲ we stan ▔▏┗┛▕▔ ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ ♡ Bioengineering ♡ ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔
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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!
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Thank you @SynBioBeta and for an amazing 2018 conference! #SynBioBeta2018
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The ZBiotics team in Woodside, California for our annual summer retreat!
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5 years
Huge thank you to everybody who came out and made the ZBiotics Launch Party this past weekend so epic. Would not have been possible without you.
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4 years
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.
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ZBiotics
4 years
Everyone at ZBiotics absolutely loved the calendar! Splendid images and super interesting fun facts about each protein! 10/10 would recommend downloading 🗓
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Protein Data Bank
4 years
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
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An amazing session on the human microbiome and biotech breakthroughs with incredible speakers: @JasminaAganovic @phylogenomics @StephJCuller @EricvdHelm @leecoo4 and Ronie Schmelz moderated by our CEO Zack Abbott. #SynBioBeta2020
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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
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Great article by @johncumbers on how @Jellatech1 ’s sustainable cell based collagen aims to distrupt the traditional supply chain.
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4 years
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💛
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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 .
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5 years
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 .
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It’s National Biotechnology Month! We want to show some love to our newly engineered strains! Bacteria need love too ❤️ #Biotechnology #microbiology
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5 years
Great roundup of synthetic biology's jump into #probiotics (and a nice mention of ZB). Thanks, @SynBioBeta !
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4 years
Have a scientific question about COVID-19? Send them to us and our CEO Zack Abbott (a PhD microbiologist) will respond. #COVID19 #Coronavirus
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4 months
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!
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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.
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Thanks for including us in this great piece, @dctrjack and @CNET !
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Co-founder Stephen Lamb writes in @statnews about why we need GMO labeling:
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4 years
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 .
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Ran out of weighing cups today :( New ones in tomorrow! Until then...origami 😬 #startupscience
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6 years
How do you mainstream GMOs? Ask @ImpossibleFoods and these other startups...
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6 years
Great to see the conversation shifting from fear-mongering to facts. And at a modern-day lifestyle company no less! Cheers to you @BritandCo
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4 years
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:
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5 years
Congratulations to @azitrainc and @twhitfill for completing their Series A funding! The future of engineered skin bio-therapeutics looks bright! #SynBio #GMO
@twhitfill
Travis Whitfill MPH
5 years
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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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5 years
The future of nutrition. Not a bad ring to it...
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8 months
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.
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2 years
Retweet if your morning has been saved by ZBiotics
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4 years
Wishing all the mothers around the world (including our own!) a very special Mother’s Day! #MothersDay
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Lab bench POV. 🧪 Show us what your lab bench looks like! 👀 #friyay
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Lots of fun chatting with Stephen @TheSpoonTech about ZBiotics!
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The Spoon
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This startup uses genetically modified probiotics to alleviate hangovers:
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Talking genetic engineering, ZBiotics, and the future of food. Interview of CEO/co-founder Zack Abbott with @sci_inquirer . .
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2 years
Thank you Twist Bioscience for not only helping us build new strains, but also for featuring us in your case study! To get the case study:
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6 years
LAST DAY of ZBiotics' crowdfunding campaign! Last chance to lock in early access and exclusive discounts:
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5 years
An oldie but a goodie to kick off the Labor Day weekend, and a reminder that bacteria can do some pretty incredible things.
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Oh to be a genetically engineered bacteria that produces functional proteins 🥰 #glowup #startupscience #microbiology
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Genetically-Engineered Enzyme Recycles Plastic 1,000X Faster Than Nature
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At ZBiotics, we appreciate a good read. And of course we love science. Here are some of the team’s favorite science books – in their own words.
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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.
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4 years
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
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Such a fun interview with @alfalfapod ! Go check them out!
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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.
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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.
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3 years
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.
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@DrAlfredoTorre1 @MattooLab @PurdueLifeSci @PurdueBiolSci @umichMichele @UMich I can think of no better use-case! I definitely could've used it at a couple past GRCs! Better late than never though...
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Take it from us, Prime Minister @BorisJohnson , the answer is the former.
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A great holiday market hosted by @SHACK15sf . Thank you for including us!
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New website is up!
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4 years
Fun milestone: this past Sunday marks the 3-year anniversary of the first ingested genetically engineered probiotic (that we know of). #GMO #synbio
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Great discussion and well-attended. Still a lot of work to do to do right by consumers and scientists alike. Thanks @ScienceAlly !
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Check out new episode "Mainstreaming GMOs? Lessons from Impossible Foods" from Human 2.0 on @anchor :
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In case one needed a reminder that snake oil-salesmen are still out there... I give you "Nootropics for dogs."
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5 years
Honored to have a great conversation with @talkingbiotech about our product specifically and genetically engineered probiotics generally
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Talking Biotech
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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.
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2024 Kickoff!
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3 years
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:
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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!
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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.
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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
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Foldit
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Today we're calling on YOU to help design antiviral proteins against #coronavirus : The most promising solutions will be manufactured & tested at the Institute for Protein Design ( @UWproteindesign ) in Seattle. #CitizenScience #COVID #COVID2019 #citsci
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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.
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Congratulations to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the revolutionary CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tools!
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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.
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We're growing! Looking for an excellent customer experience associate in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Order ZBiotics today to arrive in time for New Years Eve! #shippingtimelines #ordertoday #holidayseason #musthaveproduct
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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!
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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.
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Here’s A Must-Read Before Tonight’s Party: The World’s First GMO Probiotic Is Here... Thanks @johncumbers and @forbes !
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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
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