Category: Finance
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Synthetic Bio Company Starts Up, Raises $53 Million
A start-up business that aims to apply principles of computer circuit design to biology and medicine in creating treatments for disease is raising $53 million in its first venture funding round.
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Gut-Brain Therapies Biotech Raises $66M in New Funds
A 2 year-old biotechnology enterprise discovering new treatments for disease that harness signals between the gut and brain is raising $66 million its second venture financing round.
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Cancer Analytics Company Acquired in $1.9B Deal
The global pharmaceutical company Roche is purchasing the cancer data management and analytics enterprise Flatiron Health in New York for $1.9 billion.
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Cardiac Augmented-Reality Hologram System in Development
A start-up company spun-off from Washington University in St. Louis was awarded a grant to advance an augmented reality system that displays an interactive hologram of a patient’s heart, to simplify cardiac procedures.
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Report – Industry Pain, Addiction Drug Efforts Flagging
A report by a biotechnology industry organization says development efforts and financing for new drugs to treat pain and addiction are falling behind the health and safety needs of society.
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Neuro Therapy Company Spins-Off, Gains $20.8M Funding
A company developing treatments for cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease is starting-up in Belgium, with a technology and financial backing from local and global businesses and investors.
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Pharma Maker Crowdsourcing for Drug Delivery Partners
The global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is looking for collaborators to develop treatments for disease using nucleic acids delivered with cell-penetrating peptides.
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Microsoft Providing A.I. for Big Data Cancer Research
Seven research teams are receiving grants to study complex problems in cancer immunotherapy with large-scale data sets, and assistance with machine learning and artificial intelligence provided by Microsoft Corp.
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Grants Made to Commercialize Bone, Cancer Research
A program supporting research with commercial potential awarded grants to scientists studying stem cells for bone grafts, treatments for melanoma, and protein therapies for cancer that change gene expression patterns.
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Energy Dept Grant Funding Poplar Tree Rust Study
A university-government biotechnology lab is studying the genomics of leaf rust, a fungus afflicting poplar trees, an emerging biofuel crop, with the goal of engineering resistance to the pathogen.