Af­ter a PhII cat­a­stro­phe wiped out a bil­lion dol­lars in mar­ket cap, Seres is look­ing for a do-over

Last sum­mer, shares of Seres Ther­a­peu­tics $MCRB were shred­ded by a failed Phase II study for their lead mi­cro­bio­me drug pro­gram, wip­ing out a bil­lion dol­lars of mar­ket cap.

The set­back not on­ly raised se­ri­ous ques­tions about Seres and its ex­per­tise in the field, as the most ad­vanced mi­cro­bio­me study in the in­dus­try it al­so cast a pall over the whole field of mi­cro­bio­me R&D, the use of teem­ing mul­ti­tudes of bac­te­ria in the gut to fix what ails you.

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