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

Xconomy

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. —Merrimack Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: MACK ) announced layoffs of 22 percent of its staff and the resignation of CEO Robert Mulroy.

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Culture Counts in Every Business, Large or Small

Startup Professionals Musings

They defined it in terms of successful organizations permeated with strong and sustaining systems of beliefs. Later authors have refined this definition to include a company’s character, its deeply entrenched perspective that influences the way that organization develops new ideas, weighs options, and responds to changes in its environment.

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Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion, Not A Choice

InfoChachkie

In your own startup, you might experience lean times, but you never will be crushed in a stampede, like a middle-manager in a corporate layoff. When high-tech businesses, founded by appropriately educated entrepreneurs who received money from sophisticated investors are considered, the survival rates are even more encouraging.

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