Tag: entrepreneurs
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Start-Up Creating Blood Tests, Apps for Mental Disorders
A new enterprise based on psychiatric and molecular research at Indiana University is developing precision-medicine diagnostics for pain and mental disease.
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Stem Cell Start-Up Raises $250M in Venture Funds
A company begun last year to create cancer therapies from banked, off-the-shelf stem cells is raising $250 million in its first round of venture financing.
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Augmented Reality, A.I. Harnessed to Visualize Pain
Researchers at University of Michigan created a system with real-time neurological imaging, algorithms, and augmented reality to detect and visualize a patient’s pain.
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Two Biotechs Each Issue $300M+ IPOs
Two biotechnology enterprises in the U.S. issued their initial public stock offerings yesterday, with each company raising at least $300 million in their transactions.
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A.I. Chip Start-Up Raises $23M in Early Funds
A start-up enterprise is developing computer chips designed to run artificial intelligence, or A.I., applications but with an architecture it says can avoid memory logjams.
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Company Launches Attacking Cancer Proteins, Lands $67M
A new enterprise is starting-up to develop treatments that target cancer-causing proteins considered unreachable with current therapies.
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Gut Microbe Linked to Longer Exercise Endurance
An analysis of gut microbes from elite athletes identified a particular bacterial strain, which in tests with lab mice boosted their exercise endurance.
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Chip Device Tests for Cancer Drug Efficacy, Toxicity
A configurable chip device simulating several human organs is shown in lab tests to simultaneously test cancer drugs for both their efficacy and toxicity.
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Educational Robotics Spin-Off Company Acquired
Root Robotics, a developer of robots that teach coding to school children, is now part of the consumer and educational robotics company iRobot Corp.
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Gates Funding VR with Expansion Microscopes
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is backing research to combine a microscopy technique that grows the size of samples being examined with virtual reality, or VR.