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CRISPR-Focused Biotech Co-Founded By Forbes Under 30 Alumnus Raises $76 Million – Forbes

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2017-10-02 NEWS

CRISPR-Focused Biotech Co-Founded By Forbes Under 30 Alumnus Raises $76 Million
Forbes
KSQ Therapeutics, a biotechnology company co-founded by a member of Forbes’ 2107 30 Under 30 list, has raised $26 million and appointed a high-profile chief executive. Tim Wang, then a graduate student at MIT, co-founded KSQ with David Sabatini of …

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2017-10-02 NEWS

UofL gets nearly $14M grant to study heart stem cells
WKYT
The $13.8 million award from the National Institutes of Health is for the study of a new type of adult cardiac stem cell. The study’s principal investigator, Dr. Robert Bolli, is studying ways to repair the heart using a patient’s own stem cells. A

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2017-10-02 NEWS

LANews By Abhishek Budholiya (press release) (blog)

Synthetic Biology Market Forecast Research Reports Offers Key Insights 2016 – 2026
LANews By Abhishek Budholiya (press release) (blog)
Synthetic Biology is one of the breakthrough technologies developed by mankind from chemistry, biology, computer science and engineering which ultimately changed the approach towards therapeutics. It has a varied areas of applications in biofuels, …

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2017-10-02 NEWS

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CRISPR cas-9: the protein that will change the world forever
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The buzz around Doudna’s seminar reflects the global buzz around the groundbreaking discovery she made in 2012 with Emmanuelle Charpentier: a programmable molecular cleaver called CRISPR cas-9 that ushered in a new era of gene-editing …

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UofL Gets Nearly $14M Grant to Study Heart Stem Cells
U.S. News & World Report
The $13.8 million award from the National Institutes of Health is for the study of a new type of adult cardiac stem cell. The study’s principal investigator, Dr. Robert Bolli, is studying ways to repair the heart using a patient’s own stem cells. A

and more »

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2017-10-02 NEWS

UofL gets nearly $14M grant to study heart stem cells
Bradenton Herald
The $13.8 million award from the National Institutes of Health is for the study of a new type of adult cardiac stem cell. The study’s principal investigator, Dr. Robert Bolli, is studying ways to repair the heart using a patient’s own stem cells. A

and more »

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2017-10-02 NEWS

UofL gets nearly $14M grant to study heart stem cells
Miami Herald
The study’s principal investigator, Dr. Robert Bolli, is studying ways to repair the heart using a patient’s own stem cells. A successful treatment would replace scar tissue with new muscle, making the heart stronger and able to pump more blood. The

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