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The Perfect Pithy And Productive Investor Pitch

InfoChachkie

In a recent Wall Street Journal article , Brad Keywell noted that, while the average New York city elevator ride is 118seconds, most adults non-task focused attention span is closer to 8seconds. Google x Facebook x Amazon) + (Universal Reviews). To what extent are such positioning statements important? AngelList Differentiation.

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

Xconomy

. —Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY ) of Cambridge, MA, said that it would shelve its drug revusiran after 18 patients died in a Phase 3 study to treat the rare disease transthyretin amyloidosis. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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Bio Roundup: RIP Roger Tsien, Novartis CAR-T Wheel, Zika News & More

Xconomy

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. For more on Tsien and the rest of the week’s news, let’s get to the roundup.

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Bio Roundup: FDA Says No, PCSK9 Value Fight, CRISPR Intrigue & More

Xconomy

The CRISPR news this week doesn’t need a metaphor; the drama that MIT Technology Review reported can stand alone. Everyone is waiting until 2017, when huge studies of the drugs’ ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes start to provide data. Be our guest and try it.). Time for the gold-medal roundup.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

socalTECH

We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. Where was the technology for this developed? The onus for us is really about the technical validation of the assay.

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With $6M Investment, Histogen Aims to Grow Hair Business in China

Xconomy

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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Bio Roundup: Precision Med and Google, Heron, Lilly, Sarepta & More

Xconomy

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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