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Kryptos Biotechnologies Gets $1.2M Grant From RIGHT Foundation for Rapid STI Test

March 13, 2025

NEW YORK – Kryptos Biotechnologies said this week that the Research Investment for Global Health Technology (RIGHT) Foundation has awarded it $1.2 million to further develop its molecular diagnostic testing…

Kryptos Biotechnologies Raises $10M in Series A Round

April 4, 2024

Molecular diagnostic startup Kryptos Biotechnologies said this week that it has raised $10 million in a Series A financing round led by South Korean firm Osang Healthcare. The funding will…

LG Chem licenses in US firm’s diagnostic platform tech

December 2, 2019

LG Chem said that it has licensed in a molecular diagnostic platform technology from Kryptos Biotechnologies, a U.S. biotechnology and diagnostic firm. Kryptos’ technology, called photothermal heating, uses light to…

Silicon Valley-based molecular diagnostics startup Kryptos raises $2.7m pre-series A

November 1, 2019

The latest round adds to Kryptos Biotechnologies’ $2.6 million early-stage funding from angel investors and companies including LG Chem and BAPartners.

Heating and cooling with light leads to ultrafast DNA diagnostics

July 31, 2015

New technology developed by UC Berkeley bioengineers promises to make a workhorse lab tool cheaper, more portable and many times faster by accelerating the heating and cooling of genetic samples…

Ultrafast photonic PCR

July 31, 2015

A team in the USA has realized an ultrafast polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method that uses plasmonic photothermal heating. The PCR is a powerful technique that is widely used in…