Immuno-oncology was hotly pursued by investors in 2015, along with drug delivery platforms. In the agbiotech world, a systems biology company set up shop.
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In the version of this article initially published, on p.491, the subtitle read “double-stranded DNA” instead of “double-stranded RNA”. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Bouchie, A., DeFrancesco, L. Nature Biotechnology's academic spinouts of 2015. Nat Biotechnol 34, 484–492 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3564
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