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Calculus House Residency for Biotech research

Calculus House: Launchpad for High-Agency Biotech Residency for R&D

Calculus House is an innovative, community-driven research residency based in San Francisco that empowers early-stage biotech and AI innovators by combining wetlab access, co-living, and...

Featured
Viome gut bacteria

IBM Watson Gets Curious About Gut Microbiome, Goes Digging w/ Viome

  Gut microbiome seems to have become the new mystery of the human body after genetic code to pique the interest of biotech researchers as well...

Blog
Research Grant Applications

Instrumentl : Automating Grant Search & Application

Among the newest batch of startups being incubated at Y-Combinator is Instrumentl, a research grant search and automated application platform for making researchers like that...

Startups
xenopat

Xenopat: Your Tumor in a Mouse

Labcritics visited Xenopat, an innovative company dedicated to the orthotopic implantation of human tumors in mice. This technology allows Xenopat to offer services to companies...

Biomedicine
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Jascha Blobel: ” Gamification Helps Us to Discover New Drugs”

Labcritics presents an interview with Jascha Blobel, CEO of Molomics, the first company that gamifies the drug discovery process. You will soon be able to...

Apps
telomeres

BioViva’s CEO Claims to Have Longer Telomeres After Gene Therapy

BioViva reported last week that the company’s CEO, Elizabeth Parrish, successfully reversed biological ageing after being treated with the biotech’s therapies. The Seattle-based company confirmed that Parrish...

Bioengineering
Quick Lab Start Edition

Bento Lab: DNA Laboratory for Your Backpack

A new Kickstarter campaign has just gone live with the aim of manufacturing a laptop sized DNA lab that includes three quintessential tools necessary for DNA...

Crowdfunding
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Somagenics Secures NIH Funding for Degraded RNA Quantification Technology

Somagenics, a biotech company specialized in small RNA technologies, has received a second NIH grant to develop a method to quantify mRNA from degraded samples....

Bioengineering