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Manufacturing startup Divergent 3D reduces staff by one-third

TechCrunch LA

However, he did confirm to TechCrunch that he had to reduce staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Divergent 3D made Blade — which was on the auto show circuit in 2016 — to demonstrate the technology platform. Divergent 3D and Czinger Vehicles are wholly owned subsidiaries under Divergent Technologies.

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Biotech Roundup: Kadmon Debt, Hemo Data, Loose Lips & More

Xconomy

Despite technical differences and the early nature of the data that made comparison difficult, Wall Street declared Spark this week’s winner. . —More updates from the hematology meeting: Philadelphia-based Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ) and Dutch firm UniQure (NASDAQ: QURE ) both updated their hemophilia B gene therapy programs.

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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. .