Anthony Dellinger (left), president, and Lee Robertson, research scientist, at Kepley BioSystems, a start-up synthetic fish bait company with roots at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C.
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Tablets of OrganoBait are shown at Kepley BioSystems, a synthetic fish bait startup with roots at Greensboro’s Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.
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Kepley BioSystems President Anthony Dellinger (left) and research scientist Lee Robertson talk about their startup and its synthetic fish bait for crabs and lobsters.
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Poster board from a conference at Kepley BioSystems, a start-up synthetic fish bait company with roots at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C.
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Tablets of Organobait at Kepley BioSystems, a start-up synthetic fish bait company with roots at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C.
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Cammie Hobbs, the lab’s morale-boosting crayfish, reacts to bait at Kepley BioSystems in Greensboro.
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OrganoBait is now made in a lab in muffin tins. The company hopes to build a unit that can crank out 4,000 pieces an hour.
Anthony Dellinger (left), president, and Lee Robertson, research scientist, at Kepley BioSystems, a start-up synthetic fish bait company with roots at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C.
Tablets of OrganoBait are shown at Kepley BioSystems, a synthetic fish bait startup with roots at Greensboro’s Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.
Kepley BioSystems President Anthony Dellinger (left) and research scientist Lee Robertson talk about their startup and its synthetic fish bait for crabs and lobsters.
Poster board from a conference at Kepley BioSystems, a start-up synthetic fish bait company with roots at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C.
Tablets of Organobait at Kepley BioSystems, a start-up synthetic fish bait company with roots at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C.