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Bono and The Edge back healthy peptides

by Melody M. Bomgardner
December 19, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 49

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Credit: Nuritas
Two U2 members are backing the Irish start-up Nuritas.
A photo of two U2 members and employees of the Irish start-up Nuritas.
Credit: Nuritas
Two U2 members are backing the Irish start-up Nuritas.

U2’s Bono is a fixture of rock music and philanthropy. He’s also an experienced investor in technology start-ups. He and bandmate The Edge have invested an undisclosed amount in Nuritas, a Dublin-based start-up that discovers peptide-based ingredients for use in nutraceuticals and cosmetics. The company finds its products by mining libraries of billions of food-derived molecules. It looks for peptides with anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antiaging properties.

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