{"id":326325,"date":"2026-07-01T19:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326325\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:14:59","slug":"artan-bio-closes-1-million-seed-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326325\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTAN Bio closes $1 million seed round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 1, 2026 &#8211; St. Petersburg-based longevity biotechnology company<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artan.bio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> ARTAN Bio<\/a>, today announced the close of a $1 million seed round led by company co-founder Michael Torres, Ph.D. According to a prepared statement, the organization&#8217;s platform &#8221; is built around an engineered suppressor tRNA system designed to restore protein translation in cells harboring disease-causing nonsense mutations.&#8221; The investment will support &#8220;the transition from preclinical research toward first-in-human development.&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 1, 2026 &#8211; St. Petersburg-based longevity biotechnology company ARTAN Bio, today announced the close of a $1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-326325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}