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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

Ensure that you investigate the designers' past work, samples of their work product, and their process. Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. If you require user interface or graphic design, the selection process will differ slightly.

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Curative received FDA emergency use authorization for its novel COVID-19 tests

TechCrunch LA

Curative’s tests use an oral-fluid sample collected by having the subject cough to produce sputum, which release the virus from deep in the lungs, according to a spokesperson. ” In a subsequent blog post , the partners at DCVC explained their outreach. ” Curative says that its test is better for two reasons.

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Roche Trial of Ionis Huntington’s Disease Drug Halted After Side Effects

Xconomy

A 20-patient Phase 1 study of an RNA drug discovered by Ionis Pharmaceuticals that is being tested as a treatment for Huntington’s disease by Roche was suspended after two reports of infections related to a device used to take samples of cerebral spinal fluid during the trial. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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How Do YOU Think the Internet Will Evolve? A Sampling of Your Tweets

Xconomy

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ]

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Biotech Roundup: Gottlieb v. Juul, Solid Slumps, Avidity Gets $100M & More

Xconomy

While it remains unclear whether the cases are tied to legally sold products or devices modified by e-cigarette users, the CDC said this week it had identified a “potential toxin of concern”—Vitamin E acetate, which health officials detected in all 29 lung tissue samples from patients that they tested.

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Exact Sciences Acquires San Diego Lab Equipment Supplier Biomatrica

Xconomy

Exact Sciences has gone from being a customer of Biomatrica, a San Diego-based vendor of equipment for storing and preserving blood and saliva samples, to now being the company’s owner. Biomatrica manufactures and sells tools for preserving biological samples.

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The Convergence of Social Media & Traditional Radio

Eric Greenspan

We’ve recently launched a video series called T3:Today’s Tech Trends to further support our shows by adding a video component that can be shared directly from YouTube, our blog or embedded in the radio show website, blog or any other website/blog willing to carry the free content. This show can be found at [link].