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This VC built a lab to make building biotech startups easier

TechCrunch

This involves chemical fume hoods, equipment to facilitate cell and tissue culture work. “It It’s a building that requires permits, with special ventilation systems, equipment on and behind those benches, and the lab technicians to support it. It’s not just about a building with lab benches.

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From improving cancer treatments to saving the bees, these are the companies in IndieBio’s latest class

TechCrunch

“Our program is our diligence,” Bronson tells me. Stembionix : With personal stem cell banking in mind, Stembionix is developing a “mailable bioreactor system” that would allow for the transporting of stem cells without the freezing/thawing that complicates things and can negatively impact viability.

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Psychedelics startups are on a long journey to consumer markets, but these 5 VCs are taking the ride

TechCrunch

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. billion in part due to their cannabinoid portfolios. billion, and Pfizer buying Arena Pharma for $6.7

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What do recent changes to the UK’s AML regulations mean for your business?

Capgemini

After conducting a robust risk assessment to determine their exposure to PF risk, firms will need to tailor existing controls such as customer due diligence (CDD), customer and payment screening and transaction monitoring systems to ensure they effectively identify PF risk, and implement additional PF-specific controls where necessary.

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Data's day of reckoning

O'Reilly Media - Data

Chemists and biologists have had to address the use of their research for chemical and biological weapons. When a student submits a project in a database course, its vulnerability to hostile attack doesn’t affect the grade; an automated grading system won’t even test it for vulnerabilities. Building ethics into a data-driven culture.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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Triaging modern medicine’s cybersecurity issues

The Parallax

And they say it’s high time for the entire health care ecosystem, from clinicians to hospital systems to insurers, to scrub in and get to work on better protecting medical data and devices. Critical systems at heart of WannaCry’s impact. On doctors’ orders, Israel plans a health care CERT. The problem with ‘just patching’.

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