Category: Finance
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Phone-Based Lupus Home Test Kit in Development
A home test kit using smartphone imaging is being created by biomedical engineers to detect kidney inflammation caused by lupus, an autoimmune disorder.
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Multi-Drug Resistance Antibiotic Developer to Issue IPO
A three year-old company making new antibiotics to treat infections resistant to earlier antibiotics plans to raise some $75 million in its initial public stock offering.
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Snake-Like Intelligent Robot in Development
An engineering team is creating a self-powered robot that can travel independently like a snake through uneven and cluttered surfaces, such as disaster sites.
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Lilly, CureVac Partner on RNA Cancer Drugs in $1.8B Deal
Drug maker Eli Lilly and Company and biotechnology company CureVac AG agreed to develop a series of cancer immunotherapies based on CureVac’s messenger RNA technology.
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Infographic – Europe’s High Value Tech Companies
Our friends at Statista this week collected the top European technology companies in market value, displayed in this chart.
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Infographic – Google’s Largest Acquisitions
Our friends at Statista yesterday published this chart showing Google/Alphabet’s largest acquisitions over the years.
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Neuro Disease Start-Up Gains $30M in Early Funds
A start-up enterprise developing treatments for several neurological diseases that the company says are triggered by a common destructive protein, is raising $30 million its first venture financing round.
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Avian Flu Vaccine with Longer Protection in Development
A biotechnology company is designing a vaccine to protect against the newly emergent avian flu to provide more sustained protection like seasonal flu vaccines.
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3-D Organ Printing Company Gains Seed Funds
A start-up enterprise seeking to create replacement human tissue and organs with three-dimensional printing is raising $1.8 million in seed capital.
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Brain-Computer Link in Development for Spinal Injury
A consortium of engineering labs is designing a system translating commands in the brain to prosthetic devices that help people walk with spinal cord injury.