Molagri launches virus-like pesticide platform for resistant crop pests
The YC S26 company is adapting coronavirus-era structural biology to target insect guts, with its first grower LOI and laboratory viruses produced.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: X
Why it matters
Molagri is bringing virus-delivery methods and structural biology into crop protection. Its modular design could speed responses to pesticide resistance, but the current evidence remains at the laboratory and grower-interest stage.
Zaky Hassan and Min Jin, University of Toronto structural biologists who spent six years studying how viruses interact with host cells, introduced Molagri in an August 3rd post on X. The Toronto agricultural-biotech company is building insecticides from engineered virus-like particles, with a modular design intended to target individual pest species and swap killing mechanisms as resistance develops.
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