APPLICATIONS
Where Biology Works
Applying biological solutions across agriculture, water systems, and environmental management.
Targeting High-Impact Challenges
ISC applies its platform to some of the most persistent and costly problems across natural and managed environments.
These challenges share a common pattern—traditional solutions are losing effectiveness, creating resistance, environmental impact, and rising costs.
ISC’s approach focuses on targeted, biologically derived solutions designed to work within these systems rather than against them.
Agriculture
Addressing herbicide-resistant weeds
Herbicide-resistant weeds are expanding rapidly, reducing crop yields and increasing costs for growers.With limited innovation in new modes of action and growing regulatory pressure on existing chemicals, the $35 billion of chemical herbicides that are deployed globally are in serious need of new solutions.
ISC is developing biological herbicides designed to compete with traditional solutions while reducing resistance risk and environmental impact.
Water Systems
Controlling invasive species in infrastructure and ecosystems
Invasive species such as zebra, quagga and golden mussels clog pipes, damage infrastructure, and disrupt aquatic ecosystems.
Traditional treatments can be harmful to equipment, workers, and surrounding environments.
ISC’s solutions are designed to deliver effective control while minimizing these risks and maintaining system integrity.
Aquaculture
Supporting sustainable coastal and marine operations
Species such as burrowing shrimp and sea lice disrupt aquaculture operations and threaten coastal farming.
Resistance and regulation has limited or eliminated traditional chemical and mechanical control methods cannot scale to effectively manage invasive populations.
ISC is developing targeted biological approaches designed to control these species while protecting surrounding ecosystems.
Fisheries
Managing invasive fish populations
Invasive fish species disrupt native ecosystems and threaten commercial and recreational fisheries.
Current control methods often lack selectivity, impacting both invasive and native species or cannot scale.
ISC is advancing solutions designed to improve targeting and effectiveness while minimizing unintended impact.
One Platform, Multiple Applications
Each of these applications is powered by ISC’s discovery and development platform.
This enables the company to address multiple challenges using a consistent, scalable approach. ISC can discover, develop, and develop a new control product for a new target in 4 years and for $4 million.
Apply Biology Where It Matters
ISC works with partners across agriculture, water management, and environmental sectors to deploy targeted biological solutions.