BioHealth News Archive

How do biomedical engineers work with hackers?

How do biomedical engineers work with hackers?

That was my question when I spoke with DreamIt Health newbie BioBots, specifically co-founder Ricardo Solorzano. He has spent three years working on technology…

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Maryland’s cyber industry has the potential, but it’s missing something – Baltimore Business Journal

Maryland’s cyber industry has the potential, but it’s missing something – Baltimore Business Journal

Maryland has a future in being the perennial powerhouse in cyber security but it's lacking something that will help the state's industry take off…

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Baltimore-area companies raise $29.5M in venture capital during second quarter – Baltimore Business Journal

Baltimore-area companies raise $29.5M in venture capital during second quarter – Baltimore Business Journal

Baltimore-area companies took home 12 percent of the money venture firms invested in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region in the second quarter. Greater Baltimore companies…

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A Chip Offers a Faster and Cheaper Test for Type 1 Diabetes | MIT Technology Review

A Chip Offers a Faster and Cheaper Test for Type 1 Diabetes | MIT Technology Review

Stanford University scientists say they have developed a new test for type 1 diabetes that will cost a fraction of the current price and…

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How do you pitch a VC in the bathroom? Step 1: Don’t – Silicon Valley Business Journal

How do you pitch a VC in the bathroom? Step 1: Don’t – Silicon Valley Business Journal

Venture investors in Silicon Valley are frequent prey of startup founders who spot them in public places — and semi-public places — and start…

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BetterDoctor Closes $10 million Series A led by New Enterprise Associates

BetterDoctor Closes $10 million Series A led by New Enterprise Associates

Promising news for any unlucky american in immediate need of a doctor: BetterDoctor, the San Francisco based healthcare tool and online doctor search service,…

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Johns Hopkins & UVa Were Named Top Universities in the World – InTheCapital

Johns Hopkins & UVa Were Named Top Universities in the World – InTheCapital

While the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins can't exactly compete with Ivy League Harvard when it comes to dominating the ranking of college rankings, the…

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Qiagen introduces 14 new GeneRead DNAseq V2 gene panels targeting cancer-related genes/gene regions

Qiagen introduces 14 new GeneRead DNAseq V2 gene panels targeting cancer-related genes/gene regions

Qiagen N.V,, the leading global provider of sample & assay technologies that are used to transform biological materials into valuable molecular information, has launched…

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Video: What It Takes to Help Students Succeed – Leadership & Governance – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Video: What It Takes to Help Students Succeed – Leadership & Governance – The Chronicle of Higher Education

President of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County since 1992, Freeman A. Hrabowski III thinks he knows what students need: lots of support. Morally, colleges owe it…

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Investor says Obamacare has meant positive change for MA health technology industry – Boston Business Journal

Investor says Obamacare has meant positive change for MA health technology industry – Boston Business Journal

The two-year anniversary of the monumental Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act may not have caused much fanfare, but Steve Kraus, a…

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Medical Researchers Turn to Crowdfunding to Kickstart Novel Studies – MainStreet

Medical Researchers Turn to Crowdfunding to Kickstart Novel Studies – MainStreet

Many medical researchers with ideas not tied to a drug backed by the pharmaceutical industry often find themselves without funding; patients with diseases or…

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Johns Hopkins Undergrads Develop Injector to Treat Deep Battlefield Wounds at Junctional Body Sites (VIDEO)

Johns Hopkins Undergrads Develop Injector to Treat Deep Battlefield Wounds at Junctional Body Sites (VIDEO)

Severe bleeding is a primary cause of death for soldiers wounded on the battlefield. Deep shrapnel and gunshot wounds can be notoriously difficult to…

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Why Baltimore-area tech companies are willing to invest in name change – Baltimore Business Journal

Why Baltimore-area tech companies are willing to invest in name change – Baltimore Business Journal

A bunch of tech geeks kicking around ideas for their fledgling company might come up with a product that’s pure genius. Yet those same…

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Startup investment site RockThePost merges with the cofounder matchmakers at CoFoundersLab – VentureBeat

Startup investment site RockThePost merges with the cofounder matchmakers at CoFoundersLab – VentureBeat

Well, this is interesting. RockThePost, a site that connects startups and investors, just announced that it has merged with CoFoundersLab, a site that helps entrepreneurs find cofounders. RockThePost, which…

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Montgomery County puts big money in big data

Montgomery County puts big money in big data

DED awarded a Montgomery County Economic Development Fund grant providing up to $12 million in property tax incentives for customers of BYTEGRID®, a leading data…

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