Enterome Extends Its Microbiome Platform

The French firm has partners for its diagnostics, wants to spin out a "stool banking" company, and might follow other microbiome start-ups into drug discovery to explore the connections between our bugs and our immune system.

It took a decade for the sequencing of the human genome to yield insights that filtered into therapeutic applications. So when similar work began a few years ago to decode the human microbiome, the trillions of microbes that live in and on the human body, wisdom held that it could take far longer to translate into help for patients. The slow flow of venture money into the area has reinforced that notion. (See[A#2012900157].)

"So far the momentum isn't remarkable," says Isabelle de Cremoux, CEO of diversified venture firm Seventure Partners. "Look at the...

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