Tag: investment
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Engineered T-Cell Company Acquired for $11.9 Billion
A company developing personal cancer therapies that genetically engineer a patient’s immune system cells is being acquired in a deal valued at $11.9 billion.
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University Spins Off Educational Robot Start-Up
A start-up enterprise spun-off from Harvard University is developing a learning system with robotics to teach computer coding to students.
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Gene Editing, Therapy Company Gains $83.5M in Venture Funds
A biotechnology company designing treatments with gene edits and transfers using benign viruses is raising $83.5 million in its second venture funding round.
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S&P 500 Tech Stocks Surpass Dot-Com Peak
On Wednesday, Standard & Poor’s index of 500 stocks in the information technology industry closed at 992.29, its highest point since March 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, when the index reached 988.49.
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Start-Up Applying Artificial Intelligence to New Drug Uses
A new enterprise is being formed to apply artificial intelligence to connect drugs in development to treatments for rare diseases and other unmet medical needs.
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Immune Disease Start-Up Raises $28M in Early Funds
A new company founded to develop treatments for diseases caused by problems with the immune system is raising $28.4 million in its first round of financing.
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Coalition to Make 10,000 Open-Access Synthetic Genes
A company with a process for creating synthetic DNA and a foundation promoting open access to biotechnology agreed to produce 10,000 synthetic genes made available at no cost to researchers.
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$300M Fund to Back European Life Science Companies
A new investment fund plans to invest $300 million in European life science and biotechnology companies in the later stages of their product development.
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What Does The Future Hold For Investment?
The investment opportunities available to us in the modern day? They are large, wide and varied.
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Report: Growing Tech Industry Investment in Health
The information technology industry is a growing presence in health care, both financially and qualitatively, according to a new report.