Tag: engineering
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NIH Funds Antibody Discovery for Difficult Protein Targets
A biotechnology company is receiving NIH support for discovering antibodies that address the vast majority of proteins coded by the human genome, passed-up so far by drug makers.
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Biomanufacturing Company Gains $9.5M in Early Funds
A company offering a biomanufacturing process it says is more efficient and scalable than conventional bio-production methods is raising $9.5 million in its first venture round.
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Cardiac Tech Start-Up Partners with Mayo Clinic
A new company developing digital cardiac diagnostics is collaborating with the Mayo Clinic on early detection of coronary artery disease, a key trigger of heart attacks.
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Small Biz Award Funds Wearable Drug Delivery Patch
A developer of medical devices designed as skin patches received a contract to develop a device to deliver any drug approved by FDA for delivery through the skin.
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Genomics Company, Amazon Partner on Generative A.I.
A genomics company is providing precision medicine analytics from its databases with generative A.I. based on large language models from Amazon Web Services.
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Biosensor Developed to Detect Explosives, Land Mines
Researchers from a university biochemistry lab and company developing synthetic enzymes designed techniques using engineered bacteria to detect buried land mines at longer distances.
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Challenge Seeks Point-of-Care, Home Maternal Health Technologies
A crowdsourced competition offered by NIH is seeking new technologies to monitor the health and detect early problems with new babies and their mothers, at the point of care or in the home.
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Infographic – Q2 Tech Merger Values Up, Deals Down
The value of mergers and acquisitions in the global technology sector rose for the first time in over a year in the second quarter of 2023, while M&A deal counts dropped somewhat.
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Fujitsu, Linux Foundation Partner on Open-Source A.I.
I.T. systems company Fujitsu Ltd. is providing artificial intelligence model generation and fairness assessment software as open-source projects hosted by the Linux Foundation.
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A.I. Mammogram Screening Shown to Improve Cancer Detection
Results of a clinical trial show one radiologist using software with artificial intelligence can detect more breast cancer cases in mammograms than current reviews by two radiologists.