Plants produce a variety of rare natural products used as flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, cosmetics, vitamins, pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals. Manus Bio is structured to reduces dependence on land- and resource-intensive practices by recreating natural processes through biotechnology. Manus Biosynthesis applies the power of metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and protein engineering to create de novo biocatalysts for synthesizing new chemical entities with applications in pharmaceuticals and consumer products. The firm utilizes a proprietary technology for engineering novel biochemistry in microorganisms for the sustainable manufacture of chemicals. Recent scientific advances in genome mining allow elucidation of complex chemistries and chemical reactions found in nature. At Manus Bio, the aim is to explore the untapped potential of natures biochemistry for human and societal applications.
