BioHealth News Archive
Personalized Cancer Avatars Offer Clues to Treatment – MIT Technology Review
At a laboratory in Baltimore, hairless mice kept in racks of plastic crates are labelled with yellow cards, each identifying a person fighting cancer.…
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Grand Challenges Canada Funds Seven New Global Health Innovations in ASEAN Countries
Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, has announced funding of seven projects implemented in ASEAN member countries. This funding, totalling $784,000,…
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Roche to buy disease research company
The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is set to pay $450 million for a Danish biotech company that develops drugs that silence microRNAs (something considered…
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Medtronic’s Attain Performa Quadripolar Lead and Viva Quad CRT-D Now FDA Approved
The FDA has given Medtronic approval to introduce its Attain Performa Model 4298 quadripolar lead and the Viva Quad XT and Viva Quad S…
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Lily Qi: Leading like a true American|Chinese Community Leaders|chinadaily.com.cn
A few days after their state's primary elections, Chinese-American community leaders in Maryland woke up to an email in their inboxes. It was from…
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Google, Johns Hopkins team on technology commercialization – Baltimore Business Journal
Johns Hopkins University is teaming up with Google on a project aimed at speeding up technology commercialization. Under a new partnership agreement with Google,…
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Venture capitalists pouring money into digital health – Modern Healthcare
Wall Street may or may not be going through its long-awaited correction these days, but regardless, it still seems to have a hearty appetite…
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The Corporate Venture Capital Boom – Inc.com
As a small company, you have a number of things going for you because of your size: You're agile. You can react quickly to market changes.…
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Almost one in six doctor visits will be virtual this year – Computerworld
With an aging Baby Boomer population and broadband bandwidth improved a hundredfold from a decade ago, telemedicine is exploding as a convenient and less…
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Forbes Names University of Maryland, College Park One of American’s Top 50 Most Entrepreneurial Universities – UM Ventures
In the August 18, 2014 issue of Forbes Magazine, the University of Maryland, College Park was ranked as one of the nation’s most entrepreneurial…
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More Michigan colleges use crowdfunding for research – The Detroit News
Linda Wittbrodt was perusing Michigan Technological University’s website when she stumbled across a faculty project seeking funds to teach senior citizens online skills. Wittbrodt…
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University of Maryland opens UAS test site – GCN
The University of Maryland has launched an unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test site in southern Maryland. With support from the University System of Maryland,…
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23andMe’s Plan to Overcome FDA Concerns Over DNA Tests MIT Technology Review
Anne Wojcicki bounds into a conference room in Mountain View, California, straight from a five-mile ride from home on an elliptical bike. The 40-year-old…
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ATCC Adds ISO 13485:2003 Certification to its Quality Management Program to Further Strengthen the Organization’s Commitment to the Production of Quality Products
ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, announced today that it has received ISO 13485:2003 certification for the development, manufacture, and…
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Spotlighting 2Q IT and Healthcare Activity in U.S.
IT deal flow remained steady in 2Q. About $17 billion of PE capital was invested through 89 transactions, with both figures in line with…
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