Tag: Canada
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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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Deep Learning Techniques Speed Drug Discovery
Researchers developed and demonstrated techniques with deep learning to discover new small molecule drugs ready for validation and lab animal tests in 21 days.
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Voice Indicators to Monitor Dementia Progression
A company developing diagnostics for cognitive disorders from changes in speech patterns is partnering on vocal biomarkers to track progression of a form of dementia.
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Home Chronic Disease Blood Test in Development
A university chemistry lab and start-up company are developing a home monitoring device that aims to reduce repeated clinic visits by people with chronic diseases.
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Radiation-Antibody Biotech Raises $105M in Venture Funds
A company creating cancer treatments that combine radiation therapy with the targeting of synthetic antibodies is raising $105 million in its second round of venture financing.
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Gates Supporting Infectious Antibody Discovery
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is enlisting a company that discovers therapeutic antibodies to help researchers develop new drugs and vaccines for serious infectious diseases.
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Anti-Inflammatory Human Protein Produced in Plants
Researchers in Canada genetically engineered tobacco plants to economically produce large quantities of a human protein with anti-inflammatory properties.
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Trials Underway Testing Crispr for Blood Disorders
Clinical trials testing the genome editing technique Crispr for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia, two inherited blood disorders, enrolled and infused their first patients.
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Asthma Drug Shown to Lower Airway Muscle Mass
An experimental drug is shown in a clinical trial and computer modeling to reduce the mass of smooth muscle tissue that builds up in airways of people with asthma.
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Spin-Off Gains Seed Funds for Non-Opioid Pain Drug
A company spun-off from a university medical materials lab received start-up funds to develop a non-opioid surgical pain therapy, including a clinical trial.