Tag: debt
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Dealing With Debt When It Gets Out of Control
Spend wisely and follow these strategies to get out of debt and enjoy a debt-free life.
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Trade, Finance, Health Groups Urge Vaccine Boost
The leaders of four international economic and health organizations call for a $50 billion investment to ensure faster vaccinations in all parts of the world.
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Venture Investor to Back Underserved Tech Entrepreneurs
An investment company is offering training and seed funds to women technology entrepreneurs, and those in LGBTQ, racial, and ethnic minority communities.
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Venture-Backed Start-Ups to Get Small Biz Loans
An industry group says rules for loans to small companies hard-hit by Covid-19 are changed to allow these loans for more start-ups funded by venture capital.
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Microsoft Launches $1 Billion Climate Fund
Microsoft Corp. plans to invest $1 billion over the next four years to create technologies for removing carbon from the atmosphere.
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Patent Set for Heart Tissue Regeneration Drug
A drug developed by MDI Biological Laboratory that stimulates growth of heart tissue to fix damage from heart attacks is scheduled to receive a U.S. patent.
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RNA Technology Licensed for Cystic Fibrosis Therapy
Two biotechnology companies are collaborating on treatments for cystic fibrosis that use genetic material to address underlying causes of the inherited disease.
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University Lab Spins-Off Fertility Testing Company
29 April 2016. A new company is taking shape that aims to make it easier for women to get pregnant, based on research at a biochemistry lab at University of Wisconsin. BluDiagnostics, in Madison, founded by postdoctoral research Katie Brenner in the lab of biochemistry professor Douglas Weibel, a co-founder of the company, already raised…
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Biotechs to Develop Antibody Therapies, Explore Merger
8 January 2016. Two biotechnology companies in Vancouver agreed to collaborate on developing antibody treatments for cancer, with an option to merge their enterprises later on. The deal calls for Zymeworks Inc. to make an undisclosed equity investment in Kairos Therapeutics Inc. Zymeworks is also receiving $US 61.5 million in its first venture funding round.…
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Illumina Adds $40M for Genomic Accelerator Start-Ups
26 February 2015. Illumina Inc., a developer of genomic analysis systems, is adding $40 million for investments in new enterprises based on genomic science that graduate from its accelerator program. The additional financing is provided by Viking Global Investors, an equity and hedge fund investment company in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Illumina Accelerator program provides promising…