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Seattle biotech startup raises $3.7M to help the body regenerate tissue

Rodeo Therapeutics, a Seattle-based biotech startup that is creating therapies to help the body regenerate tissue, has landed $3.7 million… Read More

Navigating Cancer hires long-time tech exec Bill Bunker to lead oncology patient management startup

Navigating Cancer has hired longtime technology executive Bill Bunker as CEO to help the Seattle-based company “realize the vision” for… Read More

TLDR: Amazon plans to open health clinics, Steve & Connie Ballmer’s $59M commitment for at-risk students, Samsung smart speaker

Today’s featured stories Report: Amazon plans internal healthcare clinics for employees at Seattle headquarters Steve and Connie Ballmer commit $59M… Read More

Fred Hutch study finds genetic cause of aggressive brain cancer

A new study from Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found the cause of a type of aggressive brain… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Former model gets traction in race to help online shoppers find clothes that fit

Rian Buckley is arguably a pretty good candidate for helping people find jeans that fit. After all, the 30-year-old former… Read More

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Doctors Without Data: Why one MD founded a startup just to get metrics on his own patients

Dr. Dan Low loves his job. It shows in almost everything he does. Low is a pediatric anesthesiologist — he’s in… Read More

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Grail raises $300M for cancer detection tools, boosting total investment to $1.5B

News Brief: Grail, a biotech company with early backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says… Read More

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Zipline adds zip to medical delivery service with next-gen drone that goes 80 mph

A California-based aerial delivery venture called Zipline has unveiled what it calls “the fastest commercial delivery drone on Earth,” capable… Read More

Amazon reportedly hiring former FDA official as part of health tech push

News Brief: Taha Kass-Hout, former chief health informatics officer at the FDA, is reportedly joining a secretive Amazon team that works… Read More

Uber Health launches with tools to help patients get to medical appointments

Uber launched a new service Thursday designed to ferry patients to and from doctors’ appointments. The Uber Health dashboard allows… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Tech tangles with politics over net neutrality and government incentives

The tech industry’s entanglements with politics were on full display this week. Washington and other states are fighting the FCC’s… 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

Gatorade partners with Seattle startup Volt, will integrate nutrition advice into workout app

Volt Athletics is teaming up with one of the biggest names in sports business. The Seattle startup today announced a… 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

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

Podcast

Week in Geek: Magic Leap’s first product revealed; what Bill Gates gave his Secret Santa; and more

Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap finally lifted the veil on its first product this week: Magic Leap One, a… 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

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

From biscuits to ‘Buff Bezos’: Amazon CEO on shedding his poor eating habits and awful breakfast routine

Jeff Bezos didn’t always look so damn buff. The Amazon CEO took over the internet this past summer after a… Read More

Health tech startup Saykara emerges from stealth mode with AI voice transcriber for doctors

Another Seattle startup has emerged from stealth mode: Saykara, a health technology company developing an AI-fueled voice scribe that aims… Read More

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Amazon targeted in class-action lawsuit claiming defective solar eclipse glasses

A South Carolina couple has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, claiming that they suffered eye damage even though they used… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Vitamin Packs offers ‘personalized nutrition’ through subscription service

Earlier this month, three Snoqualmie, Wash.-based nutrition and technology experts launched Vitamin Packs with $1.7 million in early-stage funding from… Read More

A secret Amazon team is reportedly working on disruptive healthcare tech

Amazon is on a mission to disrupt everything from retail to data storage to entertainment media, so it should come… Read More

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Biomedical labs at UW and in Boston win $10M grants from Allen Frontiers Group

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to speed the pace of biomedical breakthroughs, is… Read More

GeekWire recommends 6 wellness apps on New Day NW

There are so many health and fitness apps available today that it can be hard to make sense of the… Read More

Startup Spotlight: motion.social is a fitness app that connects users around common interests

David Longdon and Justin Huff believe that the experience — not the data — is what drives people to continue… Read More

Podcast

The art of ‘naive innovation’: Tips from a tech genius on creative problem-solving

Shwetak Patel is a certified genius. The University of Washington computer science and electrical engineering professor won a 2011 MacArthur… Read More

UW researchers’ ‘kidney on a chip’ will be prepped for space station experiment

A stack of card-sized gizmos that test the effects of drugs, toxins and weightlessness on human kidney cells is due… Read More

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