The brainstorming for how to deal with the impending physician shortage is happening on many different fronts. Some think cutting the length of medical school from four to three years ...
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NanoString, a genomics company with special technology for helping cancer researchers, has just filed an S-1, declaring to the SEC (and the reading world) its intention to go public. The ...
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United State’s national coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari believes health tech innovation is only really going to grow when there are economic incentives. For him, there are three major ...
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Biotechnology company Karyopharm Therapeutics has raised $48.2 million in a series B round for an innovative group of molecules to combat cancer, according to a company statement.Karyopharm’s approach, in phase ...
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The maker movement has helped start many companies. This year, Maker Faire is giving them a place of their own, with a ’Startup Pavilion’ that highlights 20 new maker-centric companies. ...
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President Barack Obama is known for running one of the most tech-savvy political campaigns in the history of US politics. The chief scientist of the Obama campaign’s data analytics team,Rayid ...
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It seems privacy issues related to Google Glass are drawing government attention. A committee in the U.S. Congressional Privacy Caucus sent a letter to Google chief executive Larry Page asking ...
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It was a big news for stem cells this week, particularly from a group of researchers who successfully transformed human skin cells into embryonic stem cells, showing that it’s possible ...
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It’s been just over one year since the JOBS Act was passed, which makes equity- and debt-based crowdfunding legal for accredited and nonaccredited investors. Although the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...
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The “virtual” business models that have become common in many biotech startups may allow companies to operate with less capital, but they also present their own set of challenges.One of ...
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As providers seek to meet the meaningful use stage 2 requirements, finding the best way to identify and address the health literacy levels of their patients is a critical component ...
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When a company sets out to enter a market inhabited by heavyweights like LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics, it better have something good. Good Start Genetics has applied next-generation DNA sequencing ...
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The La Jolla, California, biotech formerly known as Anaphore is looking a little different these days. Under the leadership of former Fate Therapeutics CEO Paul Grayson, Anaphore changed its name ...
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As healthcare accelerators evolve, they are inclined to make some changes as they get feedback from investors and participants. Tigerlabs Health held a demo day for its inaugural class today ...
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If you’ve been waiting for the day when robot doctors will cut you open, monitor you recovery, and keep you company in your hospital room, you won’t have to wait ...
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