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Exact Sciences Acquires San Diego Lab Equipment Supplier Biomatrica

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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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Genalyte Takes Aim at Lab Testing Giants with Cloud-Based Service

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Genalyte, a biomedical diagnostics company that has maintained a low profile in San Diego while raising almost $92 million, is getting ready to debut technology that targets a market long dominated by centralized lab services providers. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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

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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

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[ 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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New Biotech Viscient Partners with Organovo on Fatty Liver Disease

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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.

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

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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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Echo Raises $7.5M to Meet Big Orders for Hybrid Digital Microscope

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Echo , a San Diego startup that has developed a digital, all-in-one microscope, says today it has closed on $7.5 million in a Series A round led by San Francisco-based Dolby Family Ventures and Southern California’s Tech Coast Angels. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.