Stories
Spotlight on Pasture Biosciences
Pasture Biosciences is a biotechnology company developing next-generation veterinary vaccines that improve livestock productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The company is building an AI-enabled RNA platform to target the microbiology of cattle in fundamentally new ways.
Engage Bio Acquired by Lilly
In a recent conversation with Leah Makley, COO of MBC, Will Olsen traced the five-year journey behind Engage Bio – a story of sustained scientific conviction and a lean team that rebuilt its technical foundation more than once to solve some of genetic medicine’s trickiest challenges.
A Spotlight on Siolta Therapeutics
Siolta Therapeutics vision was bold and prevention-focused: to prevent allergic diseases in infants before symptoms ever appear – not to manage them or treat them after diagnosis, but to stop them from developing in the first place. This year, that vision became reality.
Fika, A New MBC BioLabs Tradition!
According to Doug Crawford, there are a few key things that scientists need in order to succeed in the labs: one of them being coffee, and the other is snacks! Our newly adapted weekly tradition of Fika was inspired by the Swedish culture. Fika, which roughly translates from Swedish as drinking coffee, munching sweet treats and chatting — is as much a part of the working day in Sweden as emailing and fixing the printer.
Celebrating “Small” Wins
Traditionally, most of the events we celebrate in life are the big milestones we accomplish – birthdays, graduation, retirement, the first round of investments. Often, we are too focused on the “goal” or the “outcome” that we forget about the small steppingstones along the way; the “small wins” in our day-to-day lives that drive the initiative to accomplish even bigger milestones.
