BioHealth News Archive
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
DED awarded a Montgomery County Economic Development Fund grant providing up to $12 million in property tax incentives for customers of BYTEGRID®, a leading data…
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Medtronic tech leader offers 4 metrics for measuring an innovation department
Paul Thompson, director of IT innovation at Medtronic, explained how he held on for four years to bring the “hospital of the future” to…
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Mikulski tours MedImmune labs, meets with employees – The Frederick News-Post
Sen. Barbara Mikulski toured the MedImmune laboratories in Frederick on Monday morning and talked with employees. Mikulski told the workers she was proud of…
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J&J Innovation shows off its new summer lineup of biotech deals – FierceBiotech
When Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) Innovation debuted about a year ago, R&D chief Paul Stoffels promised to build an interconnected, global operation that would…
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