Redefining how we
understand biology
Human hair serves as both a sensor and a hard drive, capturing unique environmental exposures over time. Its ability to record data and ease of collection make it an ideal source for health insights.
LinusBio has developed a biomarker platform that plays back these recordings, bridging genomics and environment by querying strands of hair, measuring a person’s metabolic responses to environmental exposures and gauging each individual’s health risks.
The platform reveals how environmental factors affect human physiology over time – a video, rather than a single frame – providing essential data for pharma companies, academic researchers, clinicians, patients and families.
A proprietary robotics system processes each hair specimen for lab analysis
Our automated system ensures the precise handling of delicate hair specimens, enabling scalable and efficient commercial applications.
Carefully dissecting each strand to reveal its growth rings.
A layer of the hair sample is removed to expose its internal matter, allowing the platform to measure each individual molecule. This process micro-dissects the sample without raising its temperature, preserving molecular information.
Laser ablation extracts molecules from hair for analysis
First-in-class laser ablation vaporizes and releases organic molecules from within the hair strand at various time points.
Mass spectrometry analyzes organic molecules
Molecules from the hair are captured, identified, and analyzed using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer, providing high-throughput sample analysis.
Temporal exposomic sequencing
Machine learning and AI techniques map an individual’s unique biological responses to environmental exposures by analyzing and patterning the metabolism of essential and non-essential elements and molecules in hair.
Biomarker Identification
The LinusBio platform identifies dysregulated molecular patterns to characterize targeted disorders or pathways. This process not only generates novel biomarkers for diagnosis but also advances metabolic phenotyping to support the development of innovative treatments.
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