TAGS: Skin Care
BASF and Biomillenia have announced the signing of a partnership agreement for microbiome research. The collaboration is aimed to identify novel dermocosmetic active ingredients involved in promoting skin health.
To Utilize Microbiome-on-a-chip Technology
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Biomillenia will contribute its unique microbiome-on-a-chip technology that has the ability to grow specific microbes and maintain a higher diversity of living microbes than with standard microbiology methods.
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This will allow BASF to explore how active ingredients can modulate the presence and growth of the skin microbiota, and consequently affect its health.
BASF is constantly expanding its activities dedicated to developing solutions acting on or through the skin microbiota.
To Promote Healthy Skin
David Hérault, R&D Global Director of BASF Beauty Care Solutions, commented, “T
he skin hosts a huge and varied microbiota and as such plays an important role in skin health. Biomillenia’s ability to rapidly identify novel microbes and screen for active ingredients involved in promoting healthy skin will enable new research possibilities and market opportunities for BASF.”
Dirk Loeffert, Ph.D., CEO of Biomillenia, said, “
The microbiome is a vast natural pool of mostly undiscovered microbes that can be leveraged across several industries, including consumer health, agriculture, animal health and food. We are supporting companies in these sectors by providing access to our technology platform to culture and perform functional analysis of microbes in low volume droplets using proprietary lab-on-a-chip technology. In addition, our customers can gain access to our microbial culture collection and state of the art microbe isolation and sequencing technologies.”
Source: BASF