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Smart Bandages: Remote Wound Healing Reduces Risk of Amputations

Every year, 500,000 amputations take place due to chronic or hard-to-heal wounds – which are those that take longer than six weeks to heal. They inflict a substantial economic burden on health care systems worldwide as well, with over $28 billion in Medicare costs annually in the US alone. Over...

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Austrian deeptech startup Sarcura secures €7 million to revolutionize cell therapy manufacturing

Austrian deeptech startup Sarcura secures €7 million to revolutionize cell therapy manufacturing

The Austrian deeptech startup Sarcura just closed an oversubscribed €7 million Seed Plus funding round to develop a next-generation cell therapy manufacturing platform. Founded in 2019, Sarcura is developing an instrument platform for the manufacturing of advanced cell therapies. Their platform combines silicon chip technology and microfluidic processing to enable real-time process control and…

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Circular biomaterials company one • fıve raises €10.5 million to future-proof global packaging

Circular biomaterials company one • fıve raises €10.5 million to future-proof global packaging

Hamburg-based, circular biomaterials startup one • fıve (pronounced: one point five) has raised over €10.5 million in seed funding, led by a syndicate of best in class European impact investors, including Planet A Ventures, Speedinvest, Green Generation Fund, Climentum Capital, Revent and WEPA Ventures among others. one • fıve is a biomaterials discovery, development, and scale-up company founded…

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Lululemon experiments with fabric made from recycled carbon

Lululemon experiments with fabric made from recycled carbon

Good News Notes:  “New fabric samples made for Lululemon are identical to the proprietary fabric that the company uses to make high-end yoga pants. But the fabric is the first to be made with recycled carbon emissions. The athletic brand partnered with LanzaTech, a biotech startup that turns pollution into ethanol for use in fuel or chemicals—in this case, the feedstock for polyester. The…

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AI app for people with digestive disorders

AI app for people with digestive disorders

AI app for people with digestive disorders

Reporter: Irina Robu, PhD

Artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes machine learning and deep learning, which allows computers to learn without being clearly programmed every step of the way. The basic principle decrees that AI is machine intelligence leading to the best outcome when given a problem. This sets up AI well for life science applications,…

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NIH SBIR Funding Early Ventures: September 26, 2018 sponsored by Pennovation

NIH SBIR Funding Early Ventures: September 26, 2018 sponsored by Pennovation

NIH SBIR Funding Early Ventures: September 26, 2018 sponsored by Pennovation

Stephen J. Williams PhD, Reporter

Penn Center for Innovation (Pennovation) sponsored a “Meet with NCI SBIR” program directors at University of Pennsylvania Medicine Smilow Center for Translational Research with a presentation on advice on preparing a successful SBIR/STTR application to the NCI as well as discussion of…

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Backed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), New VC Firm SG3 Ventures Has $100 Million to Bet on Pittsburg Startups

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, Ph.D.

Source: http://www.biospace.com/News/backed-by-glaxosmithkline-new-vc-firm-sg3-ventures/412039/source=TopBreaking?intcid=homepage-seekernewssection-tabtopbreakingnews

  Pittsburgh-area entrepreneurs will soon have another funding option for growing early…

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Starting a Biotech the European Way

Starting a Biotech the European Way

Starting a Biotech the European Way

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, Ph.D.

A wonderful post by Tony Marsal in Nature Biotechnology highlights some of the structural differences in the way biotech startups are formed in Europe contrasted with bio-entrepreneurship as conducted in the United States.  Tony Marcel is currently the CEO of FGene S.A. and gives a personal experience  of the European…

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