Prospective Research
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company does
Prospective Research, Inc. is a US biotech founded with a vision to develop novel, lifesaving antibiotics. Its MicrobeMiner platform mimics the stimuli in soil to unlock silent gene clusters in soil microbes, giving it access to untapped antibiotics. The platform is partly crowd-sourced: users can order a sample-collection kit, dig a soil sample and send it in for screening.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Prospective Research, Inc. founded to develop novel antibiotics via its MicrobeMiner platform.
- MassBio member
Listed as a MassBio member developing lifesaving antibiotics from soil microbes; SynBioBeta covered its crowd-sourced MicrobeMiner approach.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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