Tag: entrepreneurs
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Kidney Diagnostics Receive FDA Breakthrough Tag
An algorithm-driven diagnostic test for chronic kidney disease is receiving a breakthrough device designation from the Food and Drug Administration.
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Biotech, NIH Partner on Opioid Alternative Discovery
A company creating human tissue samples from stem cells is partnering with National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, or NCATS, to help find new alternatives to opioid drugs.
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Leaf-Based Process Produces Low-Cost Enzymes
A University of Pennsylvania lab is developing a process for producing enzymes, chemicals from organisms that act as catalysts, in green leafy plants at low cost.
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Start-Up Analyzes Images to Determine Medical Condition
A new company provides a service that determines a person’s condition for disease treatments based on indicators derived from an analysis of huge medical-image databases.
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Infographic – Venture Deals Cool Off in Q1 2019
Venture capital investments worldwide declined in the first quarter of 2019, compared to the near record-setting pace of the last 3 months of 2018.
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Human-Friendly Robot Designed for A.I.
A robotics team at University of California in Berkeley designed a device to learn about humans’ needs with artificial intelligence and respond gently to their presence.
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Recruitment 101 – Attracting The Best Talent
Attracting the brightest minds to the jobs you have on offer needn’t be as tricky as you first thought.
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How Project Management is Like A.I.
Some aspects of machine learning will seem quite familiar to project managers dealing with complex and fluid environments.
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Virtual Reality Harnessed to View Inside Blood Vessels
A medical team demonstrated the feasibility of virtual reality to visualize and guide a catheter inside blood vessels through a three-dimensional human model.
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Biotechs Join Forces for Off-the-Shelf Stem Cells
Two biotechnology enterprises working in genome editing and regenerative medicine are sharing their technologies to develop off-the-shelf cell therapies.