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Angelina’s alternative: New test spots breast cancer risk at cellular level

Angelina’s alternative: New test spots breast cancer risk at cellular level

May 15, 2013 3:17 pm by | 0 Comments

There is a new screening for breast cancer that could have allowed Angelina Jolie to choose watchful waiting instead of a double mastectomy.Earlier this year, Atossa Genetics launched the ForeCYTE ... Read more

Dendreon’s cancer vaccine sales drop as competition heats up

Dendreon’s cancer vaccine sales drop as competition heats up

May 9, 2013 10:55 am by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - Sales of Dendreon Corp's prostate cancer vaccine Provenge declined in the first quarter despite efforts by the biotechnology drugs maker to shore up flagging volumes.The company's shares fell ... Read more


Preventing migraines with a new kind of antibody

Preventing migraines with a new kind of antibody

May 8, 2013 4:17 pm by | 0 Comments

A biopharmaceutical company will know this year whether an antibody produced using a unique technique can prevent chronic migraines. For many who suffer from chronic migraines, nothing can reliably prevent ... Read more

Gene therapy to restore muscle power to the heart nets UW spinoff $2.5 million

Gene therapy to restore muscle power to the heart nets UW spinoff $2.5 million

April 17, 2013 9:50 am by | 0 Comments

Damaged or weakened heart muscle that can’t pump enough blood to the rest of the body causes a host of problems that fall under the classification of heart failure. Researchers ... Read more

Microsoft releases cheaper cloud service to take on Amazon, Rackspace

Microsoft releases cheaper cloud service to take on Amazon, Rackspace

April 16, 2013 12:04 pm by | 0 Comments

Microsoft opened up its Windows Azure Infrastructure cloud services to everyone today ’ a sign that the company is both very serious about its cloud division, and ready to take ... Read more

EveryMove gets $3.5M for its apps that reward healthy employees

EveryMove gets $3.5M for its apps that reward healthy employees

April 4, 2013 8:04 pm by | 0 Comments

Seattle-based EveryMove has closed $3.5 million in funding for its health care mileage program. The company also just launched its Android app, which follows an iPhone app that lets employees ... Read more

Smokers have worse colon cancer prognosis: study

Smokers have worse colon cancer prognosis: study

April 3, 2013 4:44 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smokers are less likely to be alive and cancer-free three years after having surgery for colon cancer than people who have never smoked, according to ... Read more


Seattle biotech ups series B again to ID & develop antibodies as infectious disease therapies

Seattle biotech ups series B again to ID & develop antibodies as infectious disease therapies

March 29, 2013 4:52 pm by | 0 Comments

Seattle-based biotech Theraclone Sciences Inc. has added another $8 million to its series B as it advances two antibodies targeting viral infections through clinical development and works on identifying more.Existing ... Read more

Mobile health tourney: Ultrasound imaging systems tips off against melanoma assessment app

Mobile health tourney: Ultrasound imaging systems tips off against melanoma assessment app

March 29, 2013 9:07 am by | 0 Comments

A medical app that's designed to make use of the high availability of smartphones in developing countries by converting them into ultrasound tools is pitted against a controversial app to ... Read more

Microsoft’s contribution to patent innovation: Patent Tracker shows all its intellectual property

Microsoft’s contribution to patent innovation: Patent Tracker shows all its intellectual property

March 28, 2013 9:40 pm by | 0 Comments

On precisely the same that day that Google unveiled its open source pledge, donating ten patents for free open source use, Microsoft unveiled its new Patent Tracker, a tool to ... Read more

Get a peek of the follow-up to Windows 8 (aka. Windows Blue)

Get a peek of the follow-up to Windows 8 (aka. Windows Blue)

March 24, 2013 2:17 pm by | 0 Comments

Screenshots and early builds of Windows Blue, the successor to Windows 8, have leaked online. And they pretty much look like Windows 8. Winforum has posted screenshots of how the ... Read more

Celgene deal boosts startup developing a way to test different cancer drugs in the same tumor

Celgene deal boosts startup developing a way to test different cancer drugs in the same tumor

March 21, 2013 12:08 pm by | 0 Comments

As part of a new research deal with Celgene Corp., a startup with intriguing technology that could someday enable personalized medicine by letting doctors test different cancer drugs in a ... Read more

Spiral Genetics gets investment from Draper Fisher Jurvetson for bioinformatics tools

Spiral Genetics gets investment from Draper Fisher Jurvetson for bioinformatics tools

March 12, 2013 2:07 pm by | 0 Comments

SEATTLE - As the cost of DNA sequencing continues to fall, entrepreneurs and investors see an opportunity to bring bioinformatics tools to a mass market. ’Innovations in DNA sequencing have ... Read more

Marcelas Owens and the real forces behind Obamacare

Marcelas Owens and the real forces behind Obamacare

March 12, 2013 3:07 am by | 0 Comments

If "Obamacare" deserves a face, it's not Barack's. It's a young Seattle boy named Marcelas Owens, whose mother, like thousands of Americans every year, died of a treatable disease. Or ... Read more

Microsoft makes parts of its Kinect code as open source

Microsoft makes parts of its Kinect code as open source

March 12, 2013 3:07 am by | 0 Comments

Microsoft has open-sourced some of the code for Kinect for Windows, its motion-sensing gestural control device for the desktop. A total of 22 code samples have been posted to CodePlex, ... Read more