Cisterna Biologics
High quality mRNA for therapeutic application
About Cisterna Biologics
Where is Cisterna Biologics headquartered?
Cisterna Biologics is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
What does Cisterna Biologics do?
High quality mRNA for therapeutic application
What problem does Cisterna Biologics solve?
Standard RNA production methods generate impurities (double-stranded RNA, long RNA, and short truncated RNA) that limit the effectiveness of downstream RNA-based research and therapeutic applications.
What's Cisterna Biologics's solution?
Cisterna produces and sells high-purity off-the-shelf and custom RNA products for RNA-based research, diagnostics, and therapeutics.
What makes Cisterna Biologics different?
A proprietary SPEcific Capture and Cleavage (SPECC) technology that the company says delivers the purity benefits of HPLC-purified RNA without needing HPLC purification.
What makes Cisterna Biologics notable?
Founded by RNA biophysicist Hari Bhaskaran; a Y Combinator (S22) company in San Diego developing yeast-engineered mRNA.
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