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Google Ventures Pushes Biotech With Adimab
Google is known for an array of products that catalog and curate online content. But the company’s investment arm, Google Ventures, has for several years
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Swipe Germs Away with SwipeSense
*This article is fourth in a series featuring the initial Healthbox Accelerator participants. THE IDEA: SwipeSense is a personal, portable hand sanitizer dispenser healthcare professionals
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Biopixels Give A Whole New Meaning To Dead Pixels
Who knew that bacteria could be so beautiful? Well, apparently researchers at University of California San Diego. The team used millions of glowing bacteria cells
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Healthbox Accelerator Announces First Round Participants
Chicago-based Healthbox Accelerator has announced the first participants who will begin the program on January 9, 2012. Ten health-related technology startups were chosen from applications
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Bionic Contacts: Terminator-Like Awesomeness Ahead
Seattle, Washington - Researchers at the University of Washington are revolutionizing the contact lens and turning it into something any T-800 would love: Bionic Contacts. The
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This Is NOT A Test: Robot Controls Human
Researchers from the Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronic have developed a robot that can control a human limb using electrodes. By sending small electrical currents
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“Find & Replace” Function For Cells Speeds Up Genetic Research
ArborVita Associates (AVA), wants to disrupt the current process for performing genetic experiments on mice in order to facilitate faster genetic research that will lead
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Collaborative Bioscience: A Medical Sales Rep’s Worst Nightmare
Medical device salesman and University of Miami Florida entrepreneur Mark Slaughter had an idea. While selling medical devices to hospital groups around South Florida, he
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Would You Like Fries With That? Netherlands Dish Up Test Tube Burgers
As if we are not stuffing enough hormones and enzymes in our food today, researchers at The University of Maastricht in the Netherlands have developed
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Decoding Cancer To Usher In the Era of Personalized Care
Until recently, the treatment for certain types of cancer was a “one size fits all approach.” Basically, if you were diagnosed with “ABC” cancer you
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Why Biotech Startups are Not the Same as Tech Startups
As a former team member of a biotechnology startup, I was amazed by the amount of people, including venture capital investors, who questioned why innovation
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Virtual Nurses:The Solution To The Nursing Shortage?
When you think about the most pressing issues in health care today, cost, quality, and access are most likely the first problems to come to
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