Why Generare collects soil
Exploring soil to help discover future medicines.
Generare studies soil microbes to find new molecules: possible starting points for future medicines. Samples gathered by our collectors make this research possible.
Why microbes?
~500medicines rooted in microbial chemistry
Already essential. More to discover.
Microbes have changed medicine.
Antibiotics, cancer treatments, medicines that make transplants possible: microbial molecules are already part of our lives.
Yet much of this chemistry remains unexplored. That is where we look for new starting points for future treatments.
97% unexplored: about the figure
A study published in 2022 estimates that only 3% of natural molecules potentially encoded in bacterial genomes have been experimentally characterized. The remaining 97% represents unexplored chemical potential.
Gavriilidou et al. · Nature Microbiology · 2022
What your collection makes possible
Different soils. New possibilities.
A forest, a mountain, a coastline: different environments harbour different microbial communities. Collecting in varied places helps us broaden the search.
- A place to explore
- Your knowledge of the outdoors helps us reach a greater diversity of soils.
- A sample we can learn from
- Its location and your observations stay with it all the way to the lab.
The team behind the collection
In the field with you. In the lab at Generare.
We are a biotechnology team based in Paris. We study the molecules made by microbes to find new starting points for drug discovery.
Meet Generare
The next possibility starts with you.
No scientific background needed. We guide you.
