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April 30, 2023

A microbe hunting mission in Hungary: Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast

On the pod this week, we search for rare microbes and novel proteins

Steph Bailey

2 min read

Floating in the middle of Hungary's Lake Balaton, 2.4 nautical miles from shore, our senior reporter Freya Pratty joins Marlon Clark and Ineke Knot, field scientists at UK-based startup Basecamp Research. They are collecting rare microbes and novel proteins.

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Steph Bailey

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