Survey: 25% of women consider career change due to pandemic; 40% mull STEM
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Millions of women are considering making a career change as the pandemic drags on, citing career…
Life Sciences
Silicon Valley VC backs Raleigh startup with ties to Joe DeSimone that’s targeting pancreatic cancer
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RALEIGH – A Raleigh life science startup targeting pancreatic cancer and other diseases with what it calls a “novel” drug…
Life science firm BioAgilytix is adding 878 jobs in Durham, investing $61.5M
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – BioAgilytix, one of North Carolina’s fastest-growing home-grown life sciences companies, is adding 878 new employees with…
Inside the $4B AskBio deal, the third largest buyout ever for an NC bioscience firm
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Asklepios BioPharmaceutical (AskBio), a pioneering gene therapy company born in Chapel Hill 19 years ago and…
Raleigh ag biotech startup led by Black cofounder & CEO pivots to fight pandemic
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were shortages of many critical resources, from…
Brain breakthrough? Duke scientists help create first living, bioprinted aneurysm outside of human body
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DURHAM – Brain aneurysms affect about one in every 50 Americans and can lead to serious medical emergencies, including stroke,…
Durham startup Tellus moves closer to OK for neonatal brain treatment
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DURHAM – Tellus Therapeutics is getting closer to approval for its neonatal brain injury treatment.
This week, the Durham-based biotech…
Now hear this: Durham’s MED-EL Medical Electronics wins Innovator award
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – MED-EL Medical Electronics, a hearing-technology company with U.S. headquarters in Durham, was recently named “Innovator of…
Gene editing shows promise as tool to fight neuro disorder in babies, UNC study finds
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CHAPEL HILL – Babies born with a faulty maternal copy of the UBE3A gene will develop Angelman syndrome, a severe…