Isolation Bio


Isolation Bio is dedicated to revolutionizing microbiome research through innovative high-throughput microbial cultivation and isolation technologies. Their Prospector® platform enables rapid, automated, and scalable isolation of diverse microbial libraries, facilitating advanced microbiome understanding and product development across human, animal, agricultural, and environmental health sectors.

Industries

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Biotechnology Research

Nr. of Employees

small (1-50)

Isolation Bio

San Carlos, California, United States, North America


Patents

High resolution systems, kits, apparatus, and methods for screening microorganisms and other high throughput microbiology applications

US-12188075-B2

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Apparatus and method for picking biological sample

US-12123888-B2

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Method of transferring material from microfabricated device

US-11684914-B2

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High resolution systems, kits, apparatus, and methods for high throughput microbiology applications

US-11136621-B2

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High resolution systems, kits, apparatus, and methods for high throughput microbiology applications

US-11104940-B2

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High resolution systems, kits, apparatus, and methods for high throughput microbiology applications

US-11104939-B2

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Products

High-throughput microbial cultivation array system

A bench-top system that partitions microbial samples into thousands of nanoscale cultivation chambers to grow and monitor microcolonies in parallel, with integrated imaging and automated isolate transfer into standard multi-well plates for downstream analysis.

Microbial isolation and cultivation service

Custom research solutions powered by the Prospector platform and a dedicated team of scientists, processing soil or fecal samples into research-ready isolates.

M2GSC

M2GSC media with 30% clarified rumen fluid anaerobic formulation validated for the Prospector platform.

LB

Luria-Bertani broth aerobic media validated for the Prospector platform.

TYG

Tryptone Yeast Extract Glucose aerobic media validated for the Prospector platform.

Mega

Mega media anaerobic formulation validated for the Prospector platform.

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Services

Contract laboratory service that receives environmental or clinical samples, performs high-throughput isolation and cultivation using nanoscale array workflows, and returns research-ready isolates for downstream characterization.

Expertise Areas

  • Microbial isolation and cultivation
  • High-throughput microbiome screening
  • Microbiome discovery and library generation
  • Phenotypic screening and metabolite discovery
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Key Technologies

  • Nanoscale micro-well cultivation arrays (6000+ wells)
  • Automated colony imaging and selection
  • Automated isolate picking and transfer to multi-well plates
  • Parallel culture condition screening (multiple media/environments)
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News & Updates

Research demonstrating how the Prospector® platform rapidly builds diverse microbial libraries from switchgrass soil and roots, aiding biofuel research.


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