Climate change & crops: Durham startup focuses on how tech can protect our food
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Two companies – Oerth Bio of Durham and Yara International of Norway – are teaming up to promote technology they believe will help farmers…
Life Sciences
NC Biotech Center awards more than $1.4M in grants, loans
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The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 23 grants and loans totaling over $1.4 million to bioscience companies, universities and nonprofit…
Duke University: Developing New Tools to Fight Cancer
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Researchers at Duke are Creating More Precise Approaches to Stopping Tumors
For decades, medical cancer treatment has generally meant chemotherapy,…
UNC-Chapel Hill receives $65M from NIH for antiviral drug development center
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health awarded the UNC Gillings School of…
Durham genomics startup may hold key to better in vitro fertilization
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Durham-based BioSkryb Genomics, a developer of advanced molecular tools for single-cell analysis, has signed a multi-year agreement with Cooper Genomics to…
Pancreatic cancer breakthrough? Gel-like, radioactive implant obliterates it in mice
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the most effective treatment for pancreatic cancer ever recorded in mouse models. While most mouse…
RTP startup Tavros Therapeutics strikes $430M deal with Bayer subsidiary
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The oncology startup Tavros Therapeutics has signed a five-year collaboration with Vividion Therapeutics that could bring as much as $430.5…
Enzymes company moves to RTP – a ‘hub of bright and ambitious talent’ – from New York
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Curie Co, an early stage enzymes company based in New York City, has relocated to Research Triangle Park and hired…
Durham pharma lands $2.5M grant to advance its Alzheimer’s drug research
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Durham-based Praetego, a pharmaceutical company focused on treating neurodegenerative diseases related to aging, has received a $2.5 million grant from the…