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New York Times Best Sellers

Journal Tribune 16 Feb 2019

The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending Feb. 17, 2019.. FICTION. 1. Where The Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. 2. An Anonymous Girl. Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. Jessica Farris’s life unravels when she signs up for Dr ... 3 ... 4 ... The rise and fall of the biotech startup Theranos....

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After you spit into a tube for a DNA test like 23andMe, experts say you shouldn't assume your data will stay private forever

Business Insider 16 Feb 2019

The data you shared with a genetic testing startup like 23andMe is private — for now ... Dawn Barry, the president and cofounder of genetic research startup LunaDNA and a 12-year veteran of biotech giant Illumina, agreed....

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One of the top marijuana venture capital firms is looking to raise over $100 million for a new fund to go after growth-stage startups

Business Insider 15 Feb 2019

The firm's first fund closed at $30 million last year and is deployed across 16 companies in the cannabis sector, including BDS Analytics, a data firm, and Front Range Biosciences, a biotech startup ... While Altitude won't rule out investing in public companies, the focus will be on growth-stage startups ... Biotech, CBD drinks, and a hot vape company....

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“Patient influencers” are the latest Instagram trend, and they want to sell you drugs and devices

Vox 15 Feb 2019

Big pharma is partnering with influencers to sell new drugs and medical devices ... Nevertheless, pharmaceutical and biotech companies and Silicon Valley health startups see the opportunity Instagram presents and are increasingly using influencer-advertising as a way to increase their bottom lines ... . #Ad Think Pink ... what I could and couldn’t say ... ....

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Biotech Startup Slashes Hong Kong IPO by 23%

Caixin Online 14 Feb 2019

CStone Pharmaceuticals downsized its IPO target after a lukewarm year for money-losing biotech startups in Hong Kong ....

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Can biotech startups deliver on diversity?

Business Journal 14 Feb 2019

Last year, Janice Chen had a difficult decision to make. On the one hand, she was working in one of the biotech world’s most watched labs, honing a potentially revolutionary gene editing technology known as CRISPR ... Leaving a choice lab for a risky startup was enticing but daunting ... ....

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Irish brothers clinch $25m in funding for clinical trials firm

Irish Independent 14 Feb 2019

Teckro, the Limerick-based biotech startup co-founded by brothers Gary and Nigel Hughes, has raised a new funding round of $25m (€22.1m) ... Teckro, the Limerick-based biotech startup co-founded by brothers Gary and Nigel Hughes, has raised a new funding round of $25m (€22.1m)....

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MichBio Applauds the Fostering Innovation Act, A Bipartisan Bill Offering Continued Support to Emerging Bio Industry Companies

Market Watch 14 Feb 2019

... an additional five years for pre-revenue biotech companies. “Essentially the Act will allow biotech companies without an FDA approved product on the market—i.e ... “As helpful as the five-year exemption was, biotech startups operate on a different timeline than most other industries....

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Thursday Tech Briefing: Didi Reportedly Lost $1.6 Billion in 2018

Caixin Online 14 Feb 2019

Biotech Startup Slashes Hong Kong IPO by 23%. Suzhou-based CStone Pharmaceuticals has scaled back its fundraising target by 23% as it moves to become the first pre-profit pharmaceutical startup to list in Hong Kong this year ... CStone downsized its IPO target after a lukewarm year for money-losing biotech startups in Hong Kong....

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A New York private equity firm founded by JPMorgan and Guggenheim veterans is raising the largest-ever fund dedicated to the booming marijuana industry

Business Insider 11 Feb 2019

Tuatara raised $93 million for its first fund, which closed in 2016, and has backed eight portfolio companies — soon to be nine, according to Foreman — including marijuana brands like Willie's Reserve, as well as biotech startups like Teewinot Life Sciences, which is ......

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Southern California Philanthropists Richard and Melanie Lundquist Make $70 Million Unrestricted Gift to LA BioMed, Will Be Renamed Lundquist Institute

Market Watch 11 Feb 2019

That building, set to open March 30th, will contain offices, wet and dry labs and an 18,000-square-foot incubator operated by BioLabs, which will have room to house about 20 to 30 startup companies ... The donation will make it more enticing for biotech startups to set up shop in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County....

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From Launch To IPO In 13 Months: Gossamer Bio CEO Says She’s Running Company Of ...

Forbes 11 Feb 2019

Immunology-focused biotech startup Gossamer Bio has its market debut, with a lead drug candidate targeting moderate-to-severe asthma ... ....

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Kerala ranks 4th in investment potential

Deccan Chronicle 11 Feb 2019

Kochi ... "The business model in Kerala is unlike any other, Israel being possibly the only parallel in the areas of innovation and startup," he said ... Aeka Biochemicals managing director Aardra Chandramouli recounted her experiences as a startup entrepreneur in Kerala. "The government has given thrust to biotech and green initiatives ... ....