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Biotech Bay

DNAnexus-Powered Mosaic Microbiome Platform Announces Winners of First Community Challenge

Researchers from CosmosID and the National Center for Scientific Research of France score highest in microbiome community challenge aimed at benchmarking and improving computational methods for microbial analysis

June 20, 2018
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5 min read
Business

Twist Bioscience Expands Executive Team with Industry Veterans

Appoints James Thorburn as Chief Financial Officer

June 20, 2018
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4 min read
Job Trends

TRX BioSurgery Receives Supplier Horizon Award from Premier Inc.

TRX BioSurgery announces that it is a winner of the Supplier Horizon Award from Premier Inc.

June 20, 2018
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2 min read
Pharm Country

Aaptiv Closes Series C with $52m raised to date; Amazon Alexa Fund and Warner Music Group among new investors

Total funding for the company is now over $52 million.

June 20, 2018
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6 min read
Business

TrialScope Selected by Leading Global Pharmaceutical Company to Support Clinical Trial Disclosure and Transparency

TrialScope announced that it has been selected by GlaxoSmithKline plc to facilitate clinical trial disclosure and transparency

June 20, 2018
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2 min read
Body and Mind Inc. Provides Update on Cultivation Expansion and Management Addition

Body and Mind Inc. is pleased to provide a progress report on its Phase II cultivation expansion in Las Vegas, Nevada.

June 20, 2018
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4 min read
Biotech Beach

First Porous PEEK Spinal Implant Clinical Study Validates NuVasive Advanced Materials Science Technology In Treating Degenerative Cervical Disc Disease

Cohere® interbody fusion study results now available in the Journal of Spine & Neurosurgery

June 20, 2018
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4 min read
Job Trends

Cerebral Therapeutics Raises Series A Financing to Advance Clinical-Stage Drug-Device Combination Therapy for Adult Refractory Epilepsy

Financing Led by Granite Point Capital and Vivo Capital

June 20, 2018
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4 min read
Biotech Beach

New DYNACORD Suture from DePuy Synthes Designed to Help Address Challenges Associated with Rotator Cuff Surgery

High-strength suture uniquely designed to respond to changes in repair tension and maintain stability during the healing process

June 20, 2018
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5 min read
BioCapital

CosmosID Demonstrates Industry-Leading Performance for Strain-Level Microbiome Analysis in MOSAIC Challenge and PrecisionFDA Challenge

CosmosID announced that the company’s cloud-based bioinformatics platform for microbiome analysis has received the highest score in the strain-level microbial profiling category of the Mosaic Community Challenge and for strain-level microbial identification in the precisionFDA Pathogen Detection Challenge

June 20, 2018
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4 min read