AI BIOTECH
From lab bench to bathroom shelf
Lady Gaga’s partner, Michael Polansky, is also the CEO of Outer Biosciences, a startup using AI and living human skin to speed up biological research.
The company can keep donated skin tissue alive for up to a month, much longer than the usual few days.
That gives researchers more time to study things like inflammation, pigmentation, collagen changes and skin repair.
AI helps choose what to test. It predicts which chemicals could have an effect on the skin, researchers test them on the tissue, then feed the results back into the system so it can improve.
Outer Biosciences says this has helped it go from finding a few promising compounds over 18 months to finding roughly one every six weeks.
In brief:
It keeps human skin tissue alive for up to 30 days.
It predicts which compounds are worth testing.
The goal is to speed up skincare and skin biology research.
Coming soon to a serum near you
For now, the company is focused on cosmetic ingredients.
It plans to sell or license promising discoveries to beauty and pharma companies rather than launch its own skincare brand.
Outer Biosciences has raised around $23 million and employs 19 people. Its bigger goal is to make discovering new skin treatments and ingredients much faster.
I know this is super serious and super cool but I can’t help but wonder if they call him LORD GAGA at the workplace. Ignore me plz. - MG