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Codiak BioSciences Launches With $80M Financing to Develop Exosome-Based Products

The new firm will be based in the Boston area and is co-founded by MD Anderson Professor Raghu Kalluri and Broad Institute Director Eric Lander.

Helicos' Cash Decreases to $200K; CEO Goes Part-Time

Movers & Shakers: Jul 29, 2011
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Glenn Barney, Dario Alessi, Philip Cohen, Stephane Bancel, Noubar Afeyan

MoneyTree Reports Overall Drop in Q1 Biotech VC Funding, But Smaller Declines in Boston and Bay Area Clusters
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Silicon Valley remained the top US cluster with $210 million in first-quarter venture capital, down a little over 16 percent from the $251 million racked up a year earlier. New England's $149 million in biopharma VC marked a nearly 32 percent fall-off.

Febit, Nearing Settlement with Codon Devices, Reconsiders Its Place in Synthetic Bio Market
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"We don't want to be part of a commodity market with a lot of close competition," said Peer Stähler, Febit's chief scientific officer. "There are at least 20 companies worldwide that are competing to sell the cheapest genes."
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ChatGPT Does As Well As Humans Answering Genetics Questions, Study Finds

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics had ChatGPT answer genetics-related questions, finding it was about 68 percent accurate, but sometimes gave different answers to the same question.

Sequencing Analysis Examines Gene Regulatory Networks of Honeybee Soldier, Forager Brains

Researchers in Nature Ecology & Evolution find gene regulatory network differences between soldiers and foragers, suggesting bees can take on either role.

Analysis of Ashkenazi Jewish Cohort Uncovers New Genetic Loci Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

The study in Alzheimer's & Dementia highlighted known genes, but also novel ones with biological ties to Alzheimer's disease.

Tara Pacific Expedition Project Team Finds High Diversity Within Coral Reef Microbiome

In papers appearing in Nature Communications and elsewhere, the team reports on findings from the two-year excursion examining coral reefs.