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New Biotech Viscient Partners with Organovo on Fatty Liver Disease

Xconomy

The San Diego company, founded a decade ago on 3D bio-printing technology developed by the University of Missouri’s Gabor Forgacs, appeared to be gaining momentum on multiple fronts. In a related initiative, Organovo began moving to develop larger “patches” of 3D-printed human liver tissue for potential use in transplantation in.

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YouTube Introduces its Own App for iPhone and iPod touch | Google Adds Editing to the iOS Drive App

Tech Zulu Event

YouTube today announced its new app for iPhone and iPod touch weeks after its license with Apple to develop and preload the app in the iPhone iPod touch expired. Five Year Contract. The presentations have speaker notes, full-screen mode and can be swiped between slides. Now Available on the App Store. billion From Ads.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. I was to tell noone until the contract was signed.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. I was to tell noone until the contract was signed.

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 Ostendo declined my request to talk with CEO Hussein El-Ghoroury about the new funding and about the virtual reality display technology the company has been developing for over a decade.

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Organovo to Test Pre-Clinical Drugs on Bio-Printed Kidney Tissue

Xconomy

Since then, the San Diego company has built a thriving business as a contract research organization (CRO) that tests experimental drug compounds on bio-printed liver tissue. The company announced this week that it has developed a similar testing service for screening pre-clinical drug candidates on living human kidney tissue.

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Can’t Fit Your Cargo, Request a Buddytruk

Tech Zulu Event

While Lift and Uber allow people to request a pickup and ride from screen tested drivers to transport them and their friends safely to and from their destinations, Buddytruck fills a void that the ride-sharing services are sorely lacking, hauling of items. TZ: What was the development schedule from idea to picking up your first haul?

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