Friday, January 6, 2017
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Backs Vir Biotechnology
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the lead backers in a startup, Vir Biotechnology, which is developing cures, treatments, and preventions for challenging infectious diseases. Vir said Fri (More info...)
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Integrated Diagnostics Finds $6.1M For Lung Cancer Diagnostics
Seattle-based Indi (Integrated Diagnostics) said on Friday that it has raised $6.1M in a financing round, for its development of a molecular diagnostic blood test which helps diagnose lung cancer. The (More info...)
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Gates, Bezos-backed Blood Testing Firm Nears $1 Billion Funding
GRAIL, a startup that is backed by both Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, and which is developing blood testing technology for early stage cancer detection, is expecting to close a $1 billion, Series B fundi (More info...)
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