Tag: entrepreneurs
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If You’re a Specialist, You Need Specialist Support
Specialist businesses provide services and products that are in the upper-most echelons of the industry they’re in.
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Gene-Editing Biotech Gains $34M in Early Funds
A two year-old enterprise spun-off from Yale University is developing gene-editing treatments for genetic disorders with synthetic peptides and DNA delivered in nanoscale particles.
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Stanford, Berkeley, MIT Top Undergrad Start-Up Ranking
Stanford University, University of California in Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology lead the undergraduate programs producing founders of start-up companies in 2019.
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Spin-Off Licensing Athletic Microbiome Technology
A company spun-off from biomedical engineering labs at Harvard University is acquiring research on microbial communities in elite athletes to create new probiotics.
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Urine Test Shows Promise for Cancer Screening
Biomedical engineers and materials scientists developed a simple urine test that in samples from lab mice show they can screen for colon cancer.
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Chip Device Simulates Islet Cell Functions
A new device testing the functions of insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas is designed on a plastic chip made with common materials and manufacturing methods.
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Crispr Deployed for Programmable Smart Hydrogels
Bio-engineers developed a process using the gene editing technique Crispr to design gel materials with properties added for drug delivery, diagnostics, and electronic circuits.
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Business Practices to Keep Retail Competitive with Online
Main Street has its not-so-secret weapons waiting to be unleashed.
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Small Biz Grant Funds Pre-Term Gut Microbe Therapy
National Institutes of Health is supporting development of an extended-release probiotic treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis, an intestinal disease affecting premature infants.
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Carb-X Funds Drug-Resistant Bacterial Vaccine
A company developing vaccines with synthetic biology is receiving a grant for a vaccine to prevent infections from drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria.