Startups

Early-stage companies building for science, and the founders, funding and platforms behind them.

31 articles

High Res 3D Bioprinting Startup Looks for Investors

Poietis has launched a crowdfunding campaign on the WiSEED platform. The company plans to provide on-demand fabrication of human-tissues. 3D bioprints will have applications in research as predictive...

Bioengineering

InSilico DB: A Startup That Does The Bioinformatics For You

Biology today is increasingly dependent on IT: genome-wide experiments yield massive amounts of data and there is a growing need for big data analysis. Public repositories...

Bioinformatics

TIME’s 5 Most Influential Women Scientists You Should Know

The contribution of women to the progress of science and medicine is gaining recognition since the past few decades and their achievements cannot be disregarded....

Biotechnology

Watson Steps into Cancer Researcher’s Shoes

IBM’s Watson, the cognitive intelligence computer cum Jeopardy champion is treading into cancer research by managing to do in a day what takes 35 years for...

Education

Transcriptic, Where Robots Run the Lab

Transcriptic, a Google Ventures funded robotics startup company is making research easier by pulling them out of wet labs. Researchers send raw materials and samples,...

Equipment
scizzle

A Scizzle’ing Web App that Helps With Your Research Papers

In any research, literature search and review forms an integral part, it is time consuming too. And the fact that there are over 1.5  million...

Apps

Curoverse- A New Entry into Genomic Big-Data Sphere

Curoverse, a Boston based start-up is working on developing a software that can handle humongous amounts of genetic data. The new product they are working...

Bioinformatics