BioHealth News Archive
New Lab Keeps Md. On Cutting Edge Of Health & Technology – CBS Baltimore
Infectious diseases, pathogens and bioterrorism agents are all inside a new building downtown. Jessica Kartalija explains it’s great news for researchers at Johns Hopkins.…
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Founders Fund will give dough to early-stage science startups – VentureBeat
Founders Fund already stands out for backing startups with radical ideas, including Counsyl, Hampton Creek, Planet Labs, and SpaceX. Now the venture firm is…
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Almost half of Kaiser Permanente members book appointments, request refills and send messages online – VentureBeat
Kaiser is well known healthcare delivery model and outcomes, but, it turns out, it’s also among the best at engaging members via the web…
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Accenture report: Private insurance exchanges experiencing ‘hyper growth’ – MedCity News
While considerable attention has been heaped on the public health insurance exchanges over the year, private health insurance exchanges “are experiencing hyper-growth” and enrollment…
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Qiagen Adds Cancer Biomarkers to Personalized Healthcare Pipeline – GEN
Qiagen has acquired an exclusive global license from the University of Tokyo for the biomarker SF3B1. The company said it sees potential for developing…
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These 3 Local Universities Were Granted the Most U.S. Patents Worldwide in 2013 – InTheCapital
The Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) recently published a list of the top 100 universities worldwide granted U.S. patents in 2013, and among them were…
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Lupin, Other U.S. Firms Consider Bid For GSK Generics – Pharmaceutical Online
Inside sources reveal that Indian pharmaceutical generics firm Lupin, along with other U.S. pharma firms, is considering bidding for GlaxoSmithKline’s auctioned mature and generic…
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Find A Co-Founder, Fund Your Startup – All at Onevest – Small Business Trends
The startup world will perk up to hear that RockthePost and CoFoundersLab recently merged to form Onevest. Together the two companies will provide a…
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Here’s how the Maryland Innovation Initiative is supposed to work – Baltimore Business Journal
Jennifer Hammaker has watched biotech company respEQ Inc. grow from an experiment in a Johns Hopkins lab to a fledgling startup now looking for…
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Apollo Hospitals, Strand Life partner for genomic tests – Business Standard News
Apollo Hospitals today announced a partnership with Strand Life Sciences to launch the latter’s genomic tests across its hospitals. The partnership in gene-based diagnostics…
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GSK files world’s first malaria vaccine
GSK has submitted an application for the world’s first malaria vaccine to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The vaccine candidate, RTS,S, is produced in…
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Can Mobile Technologies and Big Data Improve Health? – MIT Technology Review
After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and advances in analytic software now make…
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Strand Genomics Inc: Genomic Insights for Personalized Medical Diagnostics and Therapies – CIO Review
The implications of the world’s largest collaborative biological project in the year 2000—the Human Genome Project-combined with the Big Data revolution in the medical…
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NextNav raises $70M Series D from NEA, others – Washington Business Journal
NextNav LLC, the bicoastal location services venture launched by XM Satellite Radio founder Gary Parsons, announced on Thursday a $70 million Series D funding…
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NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunities and Announcements for July 23, 2014
Funding and Research Opportunities The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of…
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