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Stämm Biotech raises $17M for its next-generation, 3D printed bioreactor

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Stämm Biotech , founded in 2014, is developing a desktop-sized bioreactor that looks pretty different from the tanks, tubes and knobs traditionally seen in industrial or even benchtop bioreactors. Image Credits: Stämm Biotech. Image Credits: Stämm Biotech. The movement itself acts as the stirring motion.

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Unicorn Bio is building the hardware to scale cultivated meat from lab to table

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“Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. Our approach and core conviction is that it is actually easier, and ultimately better, to design new hardware systems aimed to foster the growth around the cells, rather than trying to fit these cells to existing engineering systems.”

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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

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Today Wikifactory , billing itself as a “GitHub for hardware”, announced it has closed a $3 million funding round, taking it to a total of $4.5M, pre-series A. Karl Marx famously argued in “Das Kapital” that to achieve freedom from the slavery of capitalism, the worker must own the means of production.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Non-dilutive biotech capital, long-term angel investing, WayRay’s $80M pitch deck

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3 tips for biotech startups seeking non-dilutive capital to weather the downturn. Most biotech founders who are looking to raise in this environment assume that dilutive capital is their only option, but that’s short-sighted, writes James Coates, Health and Human Performance principal at Decisive Point.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Another Big Week For Biotech As Tome Raises $213M

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The week was especially good for biotech, which led the way with two big raises. Tome Biosciences , $213M, biotech: A big biotech raise hit high on the list this week. Bicara Therapeutics , $165M, biotech: If Bicara Therapeutics looks familiar, it’s because this isn’t its first time on this list.

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As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home

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As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home by Andrew Mendez originally published on TechCrunch.

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Glyphic Biotechnologies raises $6M to accelerate protein sequencing by orders of magnitude

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The whole human proteome may be free to browse thanks to DeepMind , but at the bleeding edge of biotech new proteins are made and tested every day, a complex and time-consuming process. Going from service to hardware sales and support is the current roadmap. Berkeley has a big new biotech incubator in Bakar Labs.

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