September 06, 2012
The NSF awarded GrassRoots an SBIR Phase IIB grant in the amount of $500,000. The grant matches $1,000,000 revenue that GrassRoots has achieved as a result of commercialization of Phase II research aimed at developing expression elements for constitutive control of gene expression.
Read More »September 03, 2012
The NIH has awarded GrassRoots a $368,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to fund a research collaboration with Dr. Mariano Garcia-Blanco at Duke Medical School. The STTR grant will fund joint research to use combinatorial control to improve regulation of transgene expression in plants.
Read More »August 02, 2012
GrassRoots has published an article in PLoS ONE titled "POWRS: Position-Sensitive Motif Discovery".
Read More »April 25, 2012
GrassRoots has published an article in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society titled "High-throughput imaging and analysis of root system architecture in Brachypodium distachyon under differential nutrient availability."
Read More »January 23, 2012
The News & Observer published a profile of GrassRoots focusing on its biofuels energy program.
Read More »September 27, 2011
GrassRoots Biotechnology and Monsanto have agreed to extend their existing three-year research collaboration for an additional two years through January, 2014. The alliance will build upon the success of the current collaboration, focusing on the design and development...
Read More »September 09, 2011
GrassRoot COO Doug Eisner lectures at the Entrepreneurship at Duke Education. Watch his lecture on “How to Start a Company: the Story of GrassRoots Biotechnology” on YouTube.
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