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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

Xconomy

The firm will now focus on its miniLab, which CEO Elizabeth Holmes touted as a follow-on version of its Edison test system at a scientific conference in August. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She refused to discuss Edison at the time. —The U.S.

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Biotech Roundup: Hellos, Goodbyes, “Cures” Delays And Trial News

Xconomy

All eyes are on Holmes, who is scheduled to present data from the company’s technology at a medical conference on August 1. million Series A to develop a drug, licensed from Columbia University, for the brain cancer glioblastoma… Lyndra , a Cambridge startup working on oral drug delivery technology, has received $5.4

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