Xconomy

MAY 2, 2017

This is the direction we’re headed, according to Larry Smarr, founding director of the California Institute of Telecommunications & Information Technology at UC San Diego. In 2011, Smarr diagnosed his own Crohn’s disease long before.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2019

That second pregnancy—a third CRISPR’d child—might already have arrived, MIT Technology Review reports. As Xconomy reported in November, He hinted about a second pregnancy after his infamous revelation of twins altered with CRISPR gene editing tools.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2018

San Diego’s Histogen, a regenerative medicine company with technology for using nascent skin cells to produce “cosmeceutical” products, says the FDA has given a green light to its application for an initial safety study of its hair stimulation product in women. Histogen is trying to provide a new option with a product known as.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

The CRISPR news this week doesn’t need a metaphor; the drama that MIT Technology Review reported can stand alone. — MIT Technology Review reported this week that a graduate student in the lab of Feng Zhang, Broad Institute gene-editing star, had accused the Broad of misleading the U.S.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The first round of pitches are due this week. “DARPA is saying you can’t retrofit [biosafety] into existing technology, you have to design it—not just into widgets and technologies, but into the institutions that are supporting the technologies.”

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Xconomy

AUGUST 6, 2018

Some of that food insecurity is due to food spoilage, rendering billions of dollars’ worth of fresh meat, produce, and dairy products inedible. They are looking for ways to use innovative technologies to change how food is harvested or grown, or improve processes along the supply chain. Department of Agriculture.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

Histogen, a San Diego-based regenerative medicine company with technology for growing skin cells and related products, said it has raised $6 million from an affiliate of Huapont Life Sciences, a healthcare products company based in Chongqing, China.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

government’s Precision Medicine Initiative is an ambitious effort to collect the genomic data of 1 million Americans, and tech giant Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG ) is deeply involved. That story and the rest of the week’s biotech headlines below. —The U.S. —David H. In the U.S.,

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2018

The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and related technologies are being used to connect ovens, refrigerators, and other kitchen appliances to the Web. When it comes to connected homes, the hottest spot is located in your kitchen. Feeling unsure about cooking that fish dish?

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

This analysis will require discussions between the technology team and the company’s tax advisors, reviewing each step of the service delivery process. This state by state review should be prioritized based on which states generate the highest sales. Nexus can also be triggered just by attending trade shows in a state.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2019

We at Xconomy are excited to announce that we are honoring Mark Levin, co-founder and partner at Third Rock Ventures, with our 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award in Boston. The award recognizes Levin’s extensive contributions to the biotech industry and to the Boston life sciences ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

Apple’s iPhone 7 is due out next month. We may not see another great leap in mobile technology—one that supercharges the whole category, the way the first iPhone did—until someone comes up with a similar synthesis of hardware and software innovation. The biggest change: no more headphone plug.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

Published in January, the technology comes from the lab of Keith Joung, who is an Editas cofounder. —Meanwhile, scientists from San Diego-based Synthetic Genomics and the J. Craig Venter Institute said they have created a yeast-based method that uses CRISPR-Cas9 to edit bacterial genomes.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope. million in nine months.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego chemist, passed away in Oregon this week. As the San Diego Union Tribune reported in 2013, Tsien (pictured) was also unafraid to shine the spotlight on what he considered suspect scientific approaches, even when espoused by legends like DNA co-discoverer James Watson.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2017

Newer drugmaking methods— RNA interference and gene therapy —could get their first ever FDA reviews. Multiple human trials of a new gene editing technology sure to win the Nobel Prize someday may have begun. Immunotherapy could further entrench itself as a mainstay of cancer treatment.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

. —In the latest twist in the controversial approval saga of Sarepta Therapeutics’s (NASDAQ: SRPT ) Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug eteplirsen (Exondys 51), the FDA released a slew of internal documents and e-mails regarding its review of the treatment. ” ASH THURSDAY.

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Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2016

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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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. Developments Blog. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. The tech industry is going south. Tech Titans on the Move. » More. » More. » More.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

As federal agency employees miss their first paychecks today due to the partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22, federal contractors and their workers—including technology professionals—face a loss of income that they may never recover.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. All eyes are on Holmes, who is scheduled to present data from the company’s technology at a medical conference on August 1. The week started on a reflective note.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

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. —The U.S.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2018

Technology from foreign nations may also be subject to stricter “immigration” rules. It’s not only people from other countries that are struggling harder to get into the United States these days, it seems.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

But documents released by the FDA showed that eteplirsen was only approved after Janet Woodcock, the FDA’s top drug evaluator, went against the recommendations of outside experts and the agency’s own scientists and reviewers.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

I found another name for this low-tech form of long distance TV show sharing in the New York Times: “sync-watching.” Beyond a simple phone call, far-flung friends are using any technical means possible—like Skype and live tweeting—to duplicate that cozy experience of sitting in front of the same TV together. See how it works here.).

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2018

You’ve made it to Friday—it’s time to take a step back, prepare for a relaxing weekend, and read a few stories about the endless ways in which your personal information can be stolen.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

—Bay Area regulatory blues: Biomarin Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: BMRN ) of San Rafael, CA, had its FDA review of cerliponase alfa (Brineura) delayed. The application could put Agios well ahead of typical cancer drug development timelines; shares spiked more than 20 percent on the news.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence. The technology was funded by the Department of Defense and comes from MIT’s Lincoln Lab. PureTech also bucked the Brexit fallout this week.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2018

Our friend and one of our earliest employees, San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow, died suddenly last weekend. Bruce covered everything—and everyone—in San Diego’s innovation scene, including the life sciences. Xconomy was dumbstruck this week, and not by the fireworks overhead.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

—Xconomy rounded up some post-election thoughts from several local tech and life science leaders , which included a mix of outrage, resiliency, hope, rationalizing, grandstanding, and some calls for calm and reason. Bagger is helping run the transition. CRISPR DEVELOPMENTS. 6 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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