Company Profile

Specialists in mitochondrial engineering, Napigen is a biotechnology, genome editing company addressing the what could be the unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants with boosted yields. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elite backgrounds - allowing production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid: example: wheat. Addressing novel genome engineering of various organisms - plants, microbes and animals - NAPIGEN is targeting two special cellular components known as organelles that harbor their own DNA: mitochondria and chloroplasts. With both organelles important to the creation of energy for cells to grow, both are also critical for producing various biochemical molecules that key to specific pathways and functions. Applications of the firm's genome technology range from industrial biotechnology to animal and human healthcare and also agriculture.