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Nestlé Invests In Microbiome Firm

by Michael McCoy
January 12, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 2

The health science subsidiary of the food giant Nestlé has invested $65 million in Seres Health, a Cambridge, Mass.-based firm that is developing biological drugs designed to treat disease by restoring a malfunctioning microbiome. Seres recently raised $48 million from other investors. Seres says it will use the funds to move its lead product, SER-109, into Phase III clinical trials for preventing the recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection.

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