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Enlibrium Finds $15M For Cancer Drugs

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The funding was led by Avalon Ventures and TPG Biotech, and also included Correlation Ventures and Osage University Partners. The startup said it is developing novel drugs based on the anti-cancer activity of metformin and designed to reduce cancer energy production to treat a range of cancer types. READ MORE>>.

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Proximal Data Gets $2M For Caching Software

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The funding came from Divergent Ventures, along with existing investors Avalon Ventures. Proximal Data develops a storage, I/O caching product i calls AutoCache, which it says is designed to remove I/O bottlenecks in virtualized environments. The firm said the new funding brings its total raised to $5M. The firm is led by Rory Bolt.

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Synthorx Raises $10M to Expand Use of Synthetic DNA in Biologics

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Existing investors Avalon Ventures and Correlation Ventures joined in the round. The company’s technology is based on research led by Floyd Romesberg, a biological chemist at The Scripps Research Institute. The San Diego firms have invested $6 million since 2014, when Synthorx was founded , CEO Court Turner said yesterday.

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Bio Roundup: CAR-T & Migraine Races, Intra-Cellular, Rockefeller & More

Xconomy

CANDID CONVERSATIONS : —Xconomy’s Alex Lash sat down with Cell Design Labs co-founder Wendell Lim to talk about and his work with colleagues at University of California, San Francisco, building “cellbots,” programmable T cells that can sense when they’re near a tumor, and produce drugs on the spot to kill only tumor cells.

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Vision, School, & Work | Interview with Jim Farley CMO Ford Motors

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The Connected Car , where automotive and technology (outside of vehicle performance and earth saving “greenness”) collide. We’d sit in meetings and people would state {I don’t like this, I don’t like that, the design of this car, I kind of like it, let’s go with it}.