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A nanoparticle injection is all it takes to let these mice see in infrared – TechCrunch

I know it’s everyone’s dream to see outside the wavelengths allotted to our visual systems. Well, as usual, mice have…

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Samsung is ditching plastic packaging – TechCrunch

Samsung Electronics said Sunday it will replace plastic packaging used for its bevy of products from mobile phones and tablets…

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Curious 23andMe twin results show why you should take DNA testing with a grain of salt – TechCrunch

If you’ve ever enthusiastically sent your spit off in the mail, you were probably anxious for whatever unexpected insights the…

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China is funding the future of American biotech – TechCrunch

Silicon Valley is in the midst of a health craze, and it is being driven by “Eastern” medicine. It’s been…

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uBiome is jumping into therapeutics with a healthy $83 million in Series C financing – TechCrunch

23andMe, IBM and now uBiome is the next tech company to jump into the lucrative multi-billion dollar drug discovery market….

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Apple’s Watch isn’t the first with an EKG reader but it will matter to more consumers – TechCrunch

Apple’s COO Jeff Williams exuberantly proclaimed Apple’s Watch was the first to get FDA clearance as an over-the-counter electrocardiogram (EKG)…

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Her super-donor origin story – TechCrunch

Priscilla Chan is so much more than Mark Zuckerberg’s wife. A teacher, doctor, and now one of the world’s top…

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George Church’s genetics on the blockchain startup just raised $4.3 million from Khosla – TechCrunch

Nebula Genomics, the startup that wants to put your whole genome on the blockchain, has announced the raise of $4.3…

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HP is ‘printing’ drugs for the CDC to speed up antibiotic testing – TechCrunch

At least 2 million people in the U.S. become infected with so-called “super bugs” and at least 23,000 people die…

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CRISPR DNA editing may cause serious genetic damage, researchers warn – TechCrunch

CRISPR-Cas9, the gene editing tool that is currently the darling of biotech and many other fields, may not be quite…