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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

Xconomy

military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. PRICE FIGHTS.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

Xconomy

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. Gilead Sciences has been a target of drug-price criticism for its hepatitis C treatments, but it dialed back the price of its new one.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

We use gestures or our voice to control our engagement with our technology. It won’t be long before another round of layoffs comes, and these new tools will create new jobs to fill the gap. None of this could be mined successfully in the past generation of technology. 62% look at online peer reviews.

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