Tag: entrepreneurs
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Solving The Minefield Of Disgruntled Workers
Solving the minefield of disgruntled workers doesn’t always have to involve a heated debate.
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Student Project Leads to Medical Device Start-Up
A group of engineering and business students developing an imaging device that quickly finds veins for blood draws is starting a company to take the device to market.
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Artificial Pancreas Shown Feasible for Young Children
An integrated system combining a glucose monitor and insulin pump to simulate the human pancreas is shown to be feasible for young children with type 1 diabetes.
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Start-Up Licensing Flexible Genome-Editing Technology
A start-up biotechnology company is licensing techniques from two universities that make genome editing more flexible and better control gene expression.
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Univ. Spin-Off Designing Heart Disease Screening App
A spin-off enterprise from Massachusetts Institute of Technology is creating a system using a smartphone camera to detect heart rhythm problems that lead to a stroke.
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Genetic Techniques Speed Brain, Muscle Cell Production
A new technology targets the expression of genes in stem cells to produce specific brain and muscle cells on demand and in a few days, a fraction of the time now required.
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Univ. Spin-Off Developing Non-Toxic Bedbug Killer
Research from a lab at Pennsylvania State University led to a technology for controlling bedbug infestations with natural enemies that are harmless to humans.
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Trial to Test Gene Therapy for Inherited Eye Disease
A spin-off enterprise from University of Oxford in the U.K. began enrolling participants in a clinical trial testing gene therapy to correct a genetic eye disease.
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Organ Transplant Start-Up Gains $38M in Early Funds
A one year-old company applying genome editing to make animal organs fit for human transplantation is raising $38 million its first venture funding round.
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Software Aims to Boost Lab Results Reproducibility
A software package that claims to tackle a growing problem of the failure to reproduce results of scientific research, is being field tested in an academic lab.