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Health/Life Sciences

Researchers win $10M grant for ‘super-cameras’ to see through human skin and diagnose disease

You’ve no doubt covered a flashlight with your hand in a dark room. Light from the flashlight’s beam makes your… Read More

Warren Buffett reveals more details about healthcare venture with JPMorgan and Amazon

The announcement last month that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, tech giant Amazon and JPMorgan Chase were teaming up on a… Read More

Carewave Medical raising cash for pain relieving wearable, with support from big biotech names

Medical device company Carewave Medical is looking to raise $1 million to support its wearable pain relief technology, according to… Read More

SnowWorld melts away pain for burn patients, using virtual reality snowballs

In a white, sterilized room in the burn ward of Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, Texas, a physician meticulously… Read More

2Morrow launches pain management app, as tech industry addresses opioid crisis

In 2016, more than 16,000 people died from an opioid overdose related to a prescription drug. That’s more than 46 people… Read More

Electromagnetic brain cancer treatment moves towards the market, but critics question its effectiveness

Nativis, a Seattle-based company developing a device that uses low-frequency radio energy waves to treat cancer and other diseases, announced… Read More

Joe Biden

Former VP Joe Biden comes out swinging for science and his cancer moonshot

AUSTIN, Texas — Joe Biden may no longer be vice president, but he’s still leading the charge for his cancer moonshot,… Read More

Microbiome and brain function

Researchers study links between gut bacteria and brain’s memory function

AUSTIN, Texas — Can probiotic bacteria play a role in how well your memory works? It’s too early to say for… Read More

Astellas Pharma buying Universal Cells for $102M in Seattle’s third biotech acquisition in a month

Astellas Pharma, a Japanese pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, is acquiring Seattle biotech Universal Cells. Astellas will pay up to $102.5… Read More

Pittsburgh poised to build thriving health innovation industry — if it can escape ‘valley of death’

More than 125,000 people receive an organ transplant every year. The procedure could replace a failing heart, lungs or kidneys, or… Read More

Center for Infectious Disease Research awarded $17.2M to tackle tuberculosis ‘global health crisis’

Seattle’s Center for Infectious Disease Research announced Tuesday that it has received a new, $17.2 million grant from the National Institute… Read More

Amazon reportedly venturing into healthcare supplies, targeting hospitals and clinics

Amazon is expanding its reach in the healthcare supply market, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Hospital… Read More

Pittsburgh research giants unveil landmark $200M immunotherapy center to combat cancer and aging

PITTSBURGH — Far before humans understood the basics of modern medicine, our immune systems protected our bodies from microscopic invaders… Read More

Seattle Children’s receives $60M donation to fund care for sick children, second largest in its history

Seattle Children’s, the largest children’s hospital and pediatric research center in Washington state, says it has received the second largest… Read More

Merck subsidiary StayWell acquires Portland digital health startup Provata Health

StayWell, a Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Merck, announced Monday that it has acquired Portland, Ore., based digital health company… Read More

Robert Overell

PhaseRX sells to Roivant Sciences for $800,000 two months after declaring bankruptcy

Seattle biotech company PhaseRX is being bought by multinational drug commercialization company Roivant Sciences, according to an SEC filing. Roivant… Read More

Seattle Genetics beats earnings expectations as revenue from cancer drug Adcetris grows

Seattle Genetics, a Seattle-based biotechnology company that makes the cancer therapy Adcetris, beat Wall Street expectations in its 2017 earnings… Read More

Arivale, ISB look to reverse early Alzheimer’s with data-driven lifestyle coaching

The Institute for Systems Biology is taking a swing at one of the most widespread and puzzling diseases in the… Read More

Seattle Genetics to acquire Cascadian Therapeutics for $614M to further bolster its cancer fight

Seattle Genetics, a biotechnology company that develops antibody-based cancer treatments, announced Wednesday that it will acquire Cascadian Therapeutics and the… Read More

Four things we wish we knew about Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway’s health venture

Three giant U.S. companies — Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway — announced Tuesday that they will form their own… Read More

As health tech booms, new census counts more than 460 health startups in Washington state

The health industry is changing in a massive way. Technology is having a huge impact on medicine, biotechnology and hospitals… Read More

Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway to form their own healthcare tech company

Three of the world’s most influential business leaders — Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon — are bringing their… Read More

Benaroya Research Institute awarded $5M grant to study personalized treatments for peanut allergies

Millions of people around the world suffer from food allergies, but we still know very little about how those allergies… Read More

Cloned monkeys

Chinese team clones monkeys from fetal cells, raising qualms about human cloning

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai have produced identical primate clones using the same… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon hires top doc; Geir Hansen leaves SVB; Acumatica board adds ex-Microsoft Business Solutions chief

Amazon is continuing to bolster its health care game. The company recently hired Dr. Martin Levine, a longtime Seattle doctor… Read More

Why Celgene decided to buy Juno Therapeutics for $9B — with a little help from U.S. tax reform

When Celgene announced Monday that it will acquire Seattle-based biotech Juno Therapeutics for $9 billion, the development was a surprise… Read More

Juno Therapeutics acquired by Celgene for $9B in dramatic deal for rising biotech star

Juno Therapeutics, the Seattle-based biotech company making cutting-edge cancer immunotherapy treatments, has reached a deal to be acquired by New Jersey-based… Read More

NurseGrid raises $5.7M for scheduling and staffing tech platform for nurses

Operating a hospital is no easy task, and at the moment, finding technology to help in that task is also… Read More

Juno Therapeutics stock surges 50% as Celgene is reportedly in talks to buy the company

New Jersey-based biotech giant Celgene is in talks to buy Seattle-based biotech Juno Therapeutics, according to a report in the… Read More

Amazon’s health ambitions confirmed? Company seeks medical data compliance leader for mysterious new initiative

Amazon appears to be preparing for a serious move into the world of health. GeekWire has unearthed an Amazon job… Read More

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