BioHealth News Archive
Personal Genome Diagnostics CE Marks Liquid Biopsy Test | BioSpace
Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. (PGDx), a leader in cancer genomics, today announced that it has applied the CE mark to PGDx elio™ plasma resolve.…
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LifeBridge Health and CareFirst are hosting an ‘innovation challenge’ for digital health startups – Technical.ly Baltimore
A pair of Baltimore healthcare leaders are partnering to reach digital health startups. Hospital network LifeBridge Health and health insurance provider CareFirst BlueCross Blue…
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Class project to clinical trials: UMBC’s affordable infant incubator wins Global Health Research Award – UMBC NEWS
When Kevin Tran ‘12, chemical engineering, was a student at UMBC, he took a course on sensors that made him realize the best high…
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2019’s Most & Least Innovative States – Maryland ranked 4th Most Innovate State
Innovation is a principal driver of U.S. economic growth. In 2019, the U.S. will spend an estimated $581 billion on research and development —…
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Built For Bio: Greg Merril, CEO of Adaptive Phage Therapeutics — MCEDC
MCEDC discovers how Greg’s clinical-stage company in Montgomery County, MD is using bacteria phage to combat the worldwide crisis in multi-drug resistant bacterial infections.…
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We’re not doing enough for our kids | Kurt Newman | TEDxTysons – YouTube
It all begins at birth. That’s the starting point for Kurt Newman as he shares his poignant journey as a pediatric surgeon. Newman offers…
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Study: Memories of music cannot be lost to Alzheimer’s and dementia
The part of your brain responsible for ASMR catalogs music, and appears to be a stronghold against Alzheimer's and dementia. {iframe}https://bigthink.com/ever-get-the-tingles-from-listening-to-good-music-that-part-of-your-brain-will-never-get-lost-to-alzheimers-2604515481.amp.html{/iframe}
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Houston scientist wins Nobel Prize for breakthrough cancer treatment – CultureMap Houston
The already much-heralded University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has just scored global bragging rights. James Allison, Ph.D., a scientist at MD Anderson…
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How Eargo Is Destigmatizing Hearing Loss Through Innovation
Eargo, a direct-to-consumer health technology company that is destigmatizing hearing loss through innovation, announced it raised $52 million in Series D funding from existing…
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The Universities at Shady Grove April 6 Expo Targets Potential Undergraduates | Montgomery Community Media
The Universities at Shady Grove (USG) will hold a Undergraduate Expo Saturday, Apr. 6 from 9 a.m. to noon. USG is part of the…
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BioHealth Capital Region is Entering Period of “Creative Destruction” at Perfect Time · BioBuzz
In 1942, Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter wrote, “ …industrial mutation—if I may use that biological term—that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly…
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Amazon’s joint health-care venture finally has a name: Haven
The joint health-care venture between Amazon AMZN , J.P. Morgan JPM and Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A finally has a name: "Haven." {iframe}https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-apos-joint-health-care-210501206.html{/iframe}
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Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Announces Pricing of Public Offering of $200,000,000 of Senior Notes due 2024, $350,000,000 of Senior Notes due 2026 and $300,000,000 of Senior Notes due 2049
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. ("Alexandria" or the "Company") (NYSE: ARE) today announced that it has priced a public offering of $200,000,000 aggregate principal…
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Osiris to be acquired by British medical device company for $660.5M – Baltimore Business Journal
Columbia-based Osiris is coming off a tumultuous three-year period in which four CEOs left the company and several former executives faced criminal charges for…
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Top 15 Best-Selling Drugs of 2018
For American patients aching for relief from the sky-high price of drugs, the news has been decidedly mixed recently. {iframe}https://www.genengnews.com/a-lists/top-15-best-selling-drugs-of-2018/?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=GEN+Daily+News+Highlights&utm_content=01&utm_campaign=GEN+Daily+News+Highlights_20190312&ajs_uid=1673D8247356B7U&oly_enc_id=1673D8247356B7U&ajs_trait_oebid=9675B9130356B7S{/iframe}
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