Health/Life Sciences – Page 46 of 54

Researchers unveil biomaterials that ‘act like autonomous computers’ to deliver drugs

Drugs and other treatments can be life-saving, but sometimes those life-saving abilities can also have harmful side effects. Researchers at… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: How AI is making humans the ‘fundamental thing in the internet of things’

Twenty years ago, in 1998, you would have been hard-pressed to find a single hospital room with a personal computer… Read More

Stratos Genomics raises $20M to commercialize fast DNA sequencing technology

Faster, cheaper DNA sequencing technology has revolutionized medicine in the past ten years. The tech provides the backbone for breakthroughs… Read More

Gene therapy startup Immusoft raises $3M, appoints new CEO as it approaches clinical trials

Immusoft is looking to get its gene therapy technology into clinical trials, and the Seattle startup announced Friday that it… Read More

Microsoft partners with Adaptive Biotech on AI-driven blood test to diagnose dozens of diseases at once

The human immune system is incredibly complex and incredibly smart. Your immune system knows when you’re getting sick, sometimes days,… Read More

Joylux raising $5M as it prepares to launch its ‘intimate wellness’ device in the U.S.

Sexual health, and particularly women’s sexual health, can often be overlooked by the medical industry. Seattle-based startup Joylux is hoping… Read More

Study: ‘Universal’ flu vaccine uses advanced genetic tech to fight the bug more effectively

The flu is a smart virus — it’s constantly changing and adapting, rewriting its genetic code to better invade our bodies.… Read More

Seattle biotech company PhaseRX files for bankruptcy, just 19 months after going public

In May of last year, biotech company PhaseRX broke an unprecedented IPO drought in Seattle with its $18.5 million initial public… Read More

Accelerator Corp. announces new leadership and renames to Accelerator Life Science Partners

Accelerator Corp., a Seattle-based life sciences investment fund, is making some big changes. The firm announced two additions to its… Read More

Scientists steal tricks from a virus to build proteins into capsules for drug delivery

University of Washington researchers have taken a page from the viral playbook to create microscopic assemblies for packaging genetic material —… Read More

Study finds differences between adult and childhood leukemia, calls for developing age-specific cancer treatments

A study conducted by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, with contributions from researchers across North America, has found stark differences… Read More

Report: Providence considering merger that would create the biggest health system in the country

News Brief: Seattle-based Providence St. Joseph Health and St. Louis-based Ascension Health are in talks about a potential merger, according… Read More

How seconds of staring at the solar eclipse led to a world of hurt for one woman

A medical case reported today in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology proved the wisdom of all those warnings not to stare… Read More

FDA announces new guidelines for regulating medical software

News Brief: The Food and Drug Administration released new guidance for developers making medical software Thursday, clarifying which kinds of… Read More

Podcast

CVS, Amazon and the ‘mass freak-out’: How tech is reshaping the healthcare industry

In October, something fairly normal happened: CNBC reported that Amazon might disrupt yet another industry, pharmaceuticals. The tech giant was… Read More

UW, Seattle Children’s and Fred Hutch launch $50M Institute for Precision Medicine, using genetics to revolutionize health

When the Human Genome Project launched in 1990, it was a scientific undertaking unlike anything the world had seen. Building… Read More

Feeling blue? Biotech startup raises $13M to create ‘natural’ color pigments using algae

We all love a splash of color in our lives, but we seldom realize the technology that goes into the… Read More

Amazon’s flirtation with pharmaceuticals may have driven CVS to acquire health insurer Aetna for $69B

CVS is buying one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, Aetna, for $69 billion, and analysts and observers say… Read More

With $1M in funding, Phase Genomics looks to crack genetic codes and discover unknown bacteria

Bacteria lurk pretty much anywhere you look, in numbers and varieties worthy of a horror movie. The challenge for scientists… Read More

Seattle Genetics COO taking the reins at stealthy biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics

Eric Dobmeier, the longtime COO at public biotech company Seattle Genetics, is stepping down from his role to become CEO… Read More

Arzeda raises another $3.2M for synthetic biology that uses fermentation to build new materials

Arzeda does work that sounds out of this world — or maybe straight out of science fiction. The company uses fermentation,… Read More

Biotech startup scores $20M to develop drug that triggers the immune system to fight cancer

Mavupharma, a biotech startup based in Kirkland, Wash., announced Wednesday that it has raised a $20 million Series A funding… Read More

Startup Spotlight: GrailAI hopes to use AI to detect cancer’s most subtle red flags

Anand Prakash is taking an unexpected path toward building GrailAI, a startup that he recently launched to fight cancer. He’s… Read More

RightSciences raises cash to develop cannabis and hemp-based medicinal patches

Amid all the hype for recreational marijuana use, it’s easy to forget that cannabis and its related plants are also… Read More

Klatu Networks raises $1 million for predictive IOT platform that protects medical samples

Klatu Networks has a very niche market: The company makes IoT technology that keeps millions of medical samples and treatments… Read More

Health tech startup spins out of Univ. of Washington, aims to make surgery more efficient with data science

The University of Washington added yet another startup to its growing list of spinouts Monday: Perimatics, a health technology company… Read More

News Brief

Intellectual Ventures’ Global Good teams up with Motic on AI-powered microscope

For years, the Global Good Fund has been working on a malaria-hunting microscope powered by artificial intelligence, and now China-based… Read More

Inside Seattle Children’s landmark $1B campaign to cure childhood cancer and other diseases

It’s an exciting time to be studying cures for cancer. New technology like cutting-edge immunotherapy treatments are opening doors to… Read More

New immunotherapy study aims to prevent children with leukemia from relapsing

When scientists at Seattle Children’s Research Institute began studying a new immunotherapy cancer treatment a few years ago, they found… Read More

Seattle Children’s launches $1 billion campaign with plans to build new immunotherapy research center

Seattle Children’s, a hospital and research institute focused on curing childhood diseases, is kickstarting the biggest campaign in its 110-year… Read More