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

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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. PRICE FIGHTS. With some caveats, ICER recommended lower prices. Shares immediately fell more than 40 percent. —The U.S.

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Putting Tom Perkins Comments into Context

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He just had his Mitt Romney moment and his name will forever be etched in the collective consciousness of the tech community for this terribly insensitive and tone deaf letter to the Wall Street Journal. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. ”".

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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This post was originally published in a shorter (more sensible) format in the Wall Street Journal online. The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. We took $2.3

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Biotech Roundup: Deals Gone Wrong, Ethical Red Flags & Bay Goodbyes

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—A team led by Jef Boeke of New York University, George Church of Harvard University, Andrew Hessel of software maker Autodesk, and Nancy Kelley proposed in the journal Science to build a synthetic human genome. The drug has a list price of $69,350 per patient, per year. To find out more, dive into this week’s roundup.