Mammoth Biosciences

Mammoth Biosciences is an American company based in San Francisco founded on June 1, 2017. Mammoth Biosciences uses CRISPR technology to develop bio-sensing technologies for diagnostics in industries such as healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and forensics. Their CRISPR platform utilizes two CRISPR proteins: Cas12 and Cas13. The technology being used by Mammoth Bioscience theoretically allows for the detection of any biomarker and/or disease that contains either RNARNA and/or DNA.

Mammoth Biosciences has received a disclosed amount of $23m in23min venture capital funding from MayfieldMayfield, NFX, 8VC8VC, AME CloudAME Cloud, WireframeWireframe, Kairos, and Boom Capital.

Mammoth Biosciences is partnering with UC San Francisco to develop a diagnostic test to identify people infected with coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (previously called 2019-nCoV). The new coronavirus strain, identified December 31, 2019 is responsible for an outbreak of disease called COVID-19 that began in Wuhan, China in December, 2019 and was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). For current testing samples are shipped to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where the test can take six or more hours to complete. The test being developed by Mammoth Biosciences is expected to take one or two hours and be completed at the doctor’s office. The test would involve a nasal swab being placed in a tube with the CRISPR-Cas system and using a color-changing strip of paper to check for a positive or negative test result. Their test, uses CRISPR-Cas12a-based lateral flow assay and RT-LAMP technology and gives results in less than 40 minutes was validated in patient respiratory swab RNA extracts and results were published in April, 2020.

Mammoth Biosciences is partnering with UC San Francisco to develop a diagnostic test to identify people infected with coronavirus, 2019-nCoV. The new coronavirus strain, identified December 31, 2019 is responsible for an outbreak that began in WuhanWuhan, China in December, 2019 and was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). For current testing samples are shipped to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where the test can take six or more hours to complete. The test being developed by Mammoth Biosciences is expected to take one or two hours and be completed at the doctor’s office. The test would involve a nasal swab being placed in a tube with the CRISPR-Cas system and using a color-changing strip of paper to check for a positive or negative test result.

Mammoth Biosciences is partnering with UC San Francisco to develop a diagnostic test to identify people infected with coronavirus, 2019-nCoV. The new coronavirus strain, identified December 31, 2019 is responsible for an outbreak that began in Wuhan, ChinaChina in December, 2019 and was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). For current testing samples are shipped to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where the test can take six or more hours to complete. The test being developed by Mammoth Biosciences is expected to take one or two hours and be completed at the doctor’s office. The test would involve a nasal swab being placed in a tube with the CRISPR-Cas system and using a color-changing strip of paper to check for a positive or negative test result.

Mammoth Biosciences is partnering with UC San Francisco to develop a diagnostic test to identify people infected with coronavirus, 2019-nCoV. The new coronavirus strain, identified December 31, 2019 is responsible for an outbreak that began in Wuhan, China in December, 2019 and was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). For current testing samples are shipped to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where the test can take six or more hours to complete. The test being developed by Mammoth Biosciences is expected to take one or two hours and be completed at the doctor’s office. The test would involve a nasal swab being placed in a tube with the CRISPR-Cas system and using a color-changing strip of paper to check for a positive or negative test result.

Mammoth Biosciences has received a disclosed amount of $23m in venture capital funding from Mayfield, NFX, 8VC, AME Cloud, Wireframe, Kairos, and Boom Capital.