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This MIT spinout is taking biomolecule storage out of the freezer
The MIT spinout CacheDNA developed a polymer that can preserve biomolecules at room temperature to make storing and transporting samples more accessible. The company is building biomolecule preservation technologies that can be used across health care, from routine blood tests and cancer screening to rare disease research.
As the company works to preserve biomolecules beyond DNA and scale the production of its kits, co-founders Banal and MIT Professor Mark Bathe believe their technology has the potential to unlock new health insights by making sample storage accessible to scientists around the world. The company also recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to expand its technology to preserve a broader swath of biomolecules, including RNA and proteins, which could yield new insights into health and disease. Together, this could enable the equivalent of a ‘Google Books’ for nucleic acids stored at room temperature, either for clinical samples in hospital settings and remote regions of the world, or alternatively to facilitate DNA data storage and retrieval at scale.”
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