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Artificial salivary gland project to aid throat cancer patients

Research to develop artificial salivary glands to facilitate swallowing for throat cancer patients has brought a Delaware health system’s cancer research center a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Throat cancer patients receiving radiation therapy can suffer from a lack of saliva that prevents them from swallowing properly and from enjoying beverages […]

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Solstas acquires two N.C. lab services firms; eyes more M&A in next month

Laboratory testing firm Solstas Lab Partners is sating its acquisition appetite with more deals, this time acquiring two lab firms in Wilmington, North Carolina. Nextwave Diagnostic Laboratories and Wilmington Pathology Laboratory represent Greensboro, North Carolina-based Solstas’s third and fourth acquisitions in the last year, and executives say they’re eying even more. “We expect to close […]