BioHealth News Archive
Your Liver May Be “Eating” Your Brain: Scientific American
Your liver could be "eating" your brain, new research suggests. People with extra abdominal fat are three times more likely than lean individuals to…
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The Secret to Making Board Meetings Suck Less
“When I was a young entrepreneur, board meetings were by far the worst days of my life,” says Jeff Bonforte, the veteran company-builder who…
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Under Armour launches $25,000 innovation challenge for Armour39 device – Baltimore Business Journal
Under Armour Inc. is hunting for the techies that can help the company beef up its fitness tracking device known as Armour39. Armour39, a…
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MedImmune leads $12.5M round for new drug aimed at big chemo market – FierceBiotech
MedImmune's venture arm has jumped in to lead a $12.5 million round for a Chapel Hill, NC-based startup that is working on a new…
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QIAGEN Launches Empowered Genome Community, Invites Citizen Scientists and Researchers to Pool and Collaboratively Interpret Human Genomes – MarketWatch
QIAGEN N.V. (frankfurt prime standard:QIA) today announced the Empowered Genome Community, which is a first-of-its-kind initiative to help people who have had their genomes…
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Adventist HealthCare CEO: Don’t drop your company health plan – Washington Business Journal
A prominent health system CEO implored the Washington region's employers to not drop their company health plans in response to the Affordable Care Act,…
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Schekman, Südhof Awarded 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI.org)
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced today that Randy W. Schekman, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at the University of…
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Osiris will sell transplant therapy Prochymal and other assets in deal that could top $100M – Washington Post
Osiris Therapeutics shares rose Friday morning after the company said it is selling some of its stem cell therapy technology, including its transplant treatment…
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Biotechnology Boom is Here to Stay, Investors Say – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ
There have been more than 30 initial public offerings of biotechnology companies so far this year, and there’s a line around the block of…
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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care – Robert S. Kaplan, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary L. Witkowski , and Heidi W. Albright – Harvard Business Review
The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. But the very existence…
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MedImmune acquires biotech company Spirogen for $440 million
MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, has acquired Spirogen, a privately-held biotech company focused on antibody-drug conjugate technology for use…
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MacroGenics shares climb following $80M IPO
Shares of MacroGenics are surging in Thursday midday trading after the biotechnology company raised $80 million in its initial public offering. MacroGenics sold 5…
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The $100M Club: Where the Major League Life Sciences Companies Are – Xconomy
People love to rank U.S. biotech clusters. Most of these reports are full of data on venture financing, patents, jobs, and NIH funding. But…
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How Obamacare could boost entrepreneurship – VentureBeat
Here’s what we know about the Affordable Care Act: 32 million Americans who would otherwise be uninsured will now have coverage. What you might…
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UMD Researchers Are Developing a Robot That Crawls into Brains and Zaps Tumors – InTheCapital
If UMD researchers are well on their way to creating a robot that can wiggle through the brain to root out the tumors deep…
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