EpiBone

EpiBone helps patients “grow their own bone”

New York regenerative medicine startup EpiBone‘s tagline is apt: “Grow your own bone.” It uses a patient’s own stem cells to create transplantable, highly personalized bone grafts, going after a 900,000-strong market of patients that need some variety of bone graft to treat, say, severe bone trauma, growth defects or genetic disorders. The company is showcased as one […]

Breakout Labs backs startups building wearable for the gut, stem cell treatment for bones

A wearable device that could transform how physicians diagnose the underlying causes of GI disorders is one of three innovative early stage life science companies Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs is backing. The program from the Thiel Foundation provides up to $350,000 for companies to reach certain milestones critical to their development, according to a company […]