BioHealth News Archive
Discovering New Uses for Old Human Enzymes
A collaboration between the University of Cambridge and MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, has led researchers to identify a…
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New Bio Fund Partner Describes A16Z Investment Strategy – Xconomy
When Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz founded their namesake venture firm in 2009, they laid out a clear-but-narrow vision for investing in a new…
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Here’s How We’ll Probably Make Gene-Edited People With CRISPR – MIT Technology Review
How would you engineer a baby? I mean really, actually do it. Last April, Chinese researchers reported that they had tried genetically editing human…
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Universities at Shady Grove completes parking garage, moves closer to breaking ground on biomedical sciences building – Washington Business Journal
Construction is complete on a new 700-spot parking garage at Universities at Shady Grove, clearing the way to begin moving dirt on a planned…
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The Latest Breakthrough In Understanding Diabetes Was Made By An Algorithm
With the cost to sequence a human genome dropping by the day and medical records finally going digital, public health experts are excited for…
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TEDCO names new head of Maryland Venture Fund – Technical.ly Baltimore
Following the Maryland Venture Fund’s transition under TEDCO’s purview last month, there’s now a new director of the quasi-public, early-stage funding resource. Andy Jones…
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FDA broadens use of Emergent Biosolutions anthrax treatment – MarketWatch
The Food and Drug Administration late Monday broadened the use of an already available anthrax drug from Emergent Biosolutions Inc. EBS, -0.57% to a…
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Alexandria Real Estate plans new 56-acre RTP campus – News & Observer
Real estate giant Alexandria Real Estate Equities has unveiled sweeping plans to transform a 56-acre Research Triangle Park site into a campus for life…
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Alexandria Rolls Out Plans for Its RTP Innovation Cluster – Xconomy
Alexandria Real Estate Equities’ vision to turn a mostly undeveloped property in Research Triangle Park into its latest life science cluster is moving forward…
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The Daily Startup: SR One Launches Startup as Biotech VCs Move Upstream – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ
Hot biotech startups are attracting increased venture funding, and venture investors are ensuring a slot in the financing of these types of companies by…
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Last chance to register for December 1 MD/Israel Business
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 | 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.The Observation Gallery at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Meet with over 30 companies and…
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Amid international growth, emocha gets grant to look at Maryland TB treatment – Technical.ly Baltimore
emocha Mobile Health received a Small Business Innovation Research grant to further development of its mobile app that provides video-based healthcare observations in some cases…
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The role of big data in medicine – McKinsey & Company
Most companies make a conscious and deliberate decision to embrace digitization and the information revolution. Yet the role of big data in medicine seems…
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Take a memo, Andreessen Horowitz: 4 areas where it should consider investments – MedCity NewsMedCity News
This week, Andreessen Horowitz said it’s launching a fund dedicated to investments in bioinformatics and “beyond the pill” technology. The venture capital firm had…
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New Center for Innovative Technology CEO Ed Albrigo will take his case for CIT’s worth statewide – Washington Business Journal
The new president and chief executive officer of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology has roots in high flight and high finance and every intention…
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