BioHealth News Archive

Daniels: Johns Hopkins making ‘tremendous strides’ toward shared goals – Hub

Daniels: Johns Hopkins making ‘tremendous strides’ toward shared goals – Hub

Almost four years after the launch of the Ten by Twenty vision plan, Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels today invited the university…

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Machine learning predicts the look of stem cells – Nature News & Comment

Machine learning predicts the look of stem cells – Nature News & Comment

No two stem cells are identical, even if they are genetic clones. This stunning diversity is revealed today in an enormous publicly available online…

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D.C.-area venture capital funding off to a great start in 2017. Here’s what Pitchbook says companies raised in VC so far. – Washington Business Journal

D.C.-area venture capital funding off to a great start in 2017. Here’s what Pitchbook says companies raised in VC so far. – Washington Business Journal

Big funding deals across a number of industries propelled the D.C. area to one of its best first quarters in recent venture capital memory,…

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Register for Health Datapalooza 2017 by this Friday, April 7 for Early Bird

Register for Health Datapalooza 2017 by this Friday, April 7 for Early Bird

April 27-28, 2017 - Washington, DC Secure your spot today at the 8th Annual Health Datapalooza, the gathering place for people and organizations creating…

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How the Trump Administration Can Unshackle Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology – ITIF

How the Trump Administration Can Unshackle Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology – ITIF

New techniques for improving plants and animals promise to reshape virtually every aspect of the relationship between humans and our environment for the better.…

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NCI to Build New Research Lab on JHU Montgomery County Campus – News – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus

NCI to Build New Research Lab on JHU Montgomery County Campus – News – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus

The National Cancer Institute has picked the Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus as the site for a new laboratory building for its epidemiology and…

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Fledgling biotech Vtesse in $200M buyout from struggling Sucampo – FierceBiotech

Fledgling biotech Vtesse in $200M buyout from struggling Sucampo – FierceBiotech

Despite only coming into life two years ago, Pfizer and NEA-backed upstart Vtesse has already seen its rare disease candidate VTS-270, for Niemann-Pick disease…

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Tagrisso Gains Regular FDA Approval for NSCLC – MPR

Tagrisso Gains Regular FDA Approval for NSCLC – MPR

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Tagrisso (osimertinib; AstraZeneca) for the treatment of patients with metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) T790M mutation-positive non-small cell…

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Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics Corp. (NASDAQ: UTHR) loses rules in challenge against drug patent – Washington Business Journal

Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics Corp. (NASDAQ: UTHR) loses rules in challenge against drug patent – Washington Business Journal

Silver Spring-based biotech United Therapeutics Corp. (NASDAQ: UTHR) lost a recent challenge to one of its lead patents for its flagship drugs. The U.S.…

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HHS secretary proposes cutting reimbursements that fund university-based research

HHS secretary proposes cutting reimbursements that fund university-based research

When President Trump proposed a cut of nearly 20 percent in support for the National Institutes of Health, many wondered how the administration would even…

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Qiagen Exclusively Licenses AR-V7 Detection Method From Johns Hopkins – GenomeWeb

Qiagen Exclusively Licenses AR-V7 Detection Method From Johns Hopkins – GenomeWeb

Qiagen said Friday after the close of the market that it has acquired an exclusive worldwide license from Johns Hopkins University for detection of…

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Canopy Biosciences Acquires Rights to New Johns Hopkins, WUSTL Gene-Editing Tech – GenomeWeb

Canopy Biosciences Acquires Rights to New Johns Hopkins, WUSTL Gene-Editing Tech – GenomeWeb

Research tools developer Canopy Biosciences announced today that it has exclusively licensed a novel gene-editing technology from Washington University in St. Louis and Johns…

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Independence’s digital health partnership provides seed capital to first company – IBX Newsroom

Independence’s digital health partnership provides seed capital to first company – IBX Newsroom

Independence Health Group, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. have given a $150,000 seed investment to VitalTrax. This is…

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The applied value of public investments in biomedical research – Science

The applied value of public investments in biomedical research – Science

Scientists and policy-makers have long argued that public investments in science have practical applications. Using data on patents linked to U.S. National Institutes of…

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This Johns Hopkins startup has a new way to regrow soft tissue – Technical.ly Baltimore

This Johns Hopkins startup has a new way to regrow soft tissue – Technical.ly Baltimore

Doctors can rebuild parts of the body that have been damaged, but they need soft tissue to do it. Whether it’s facial reconstruction after…

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