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ResearchKit An “Enormous Opportunity” For Science, Says Breast Cancer Charity
This week Apple bundled a big announcement inside it’s long awaited Apple Watch ‘Spring Forward’ event. Namely the launch of ResearchKit: an iOS software framework that lets people, currently U.S.-based only, volunteer to join medical research studies. This is arguably a lot more interesting than expensive, Internet-connected wrist wear. Read More
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YC-Backed Notable Labs Provides Personalized Medical Testing For Brain Cancer Patients
Matt de Silva was working as a hedge fund manager with Thiel Capital in the fall of 2013 when he got the news that his dad had brain cancer — specifically, a Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), which is an aggressive form of brain cancer. There are very few treatment options for this type of cancer. de Silva’s father was told he had about 3-6 months to live without chemo and… Read More
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Y Combinator-Backed SIRUM Matches Unused Medicine With Low-Income Patients
An estimated $5 billion worth of prescription medication gets burned up, flushed down the drain or thrown in the garbage each year. About $2 billion worth of it just sits on the shelf at long-term care facilities in the United States until it expires, according to University of Chicago researchers. That’s a terrible waste, considering prescription medication is one of the highest costs… Read More
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With A $60M Revenue Run Rate, ClassPass May Be The Next Uber
TechCrunch has secured financial information about ClassPass, the TechStars-backed startup that offers unlimited access to various fitness classes for a flat monthly fee. As it stands now, our sources report that ClassPass is tracking to a $60 million revenue run rate for 2015, a run rate that has doubled in the past three months. Last week alone, the company brought in $1.5 million and this… Read More
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Microsoft Launches Developer Preview SDK And New Features For Microsoft Band
Microsoft is preparing to bring third-party apps to its Microsoft Band wearable platform. The company revealed today that it’s launching a Developer Preview SDK for the wrist-worn device, allowing third-party app makers to start to create apps for it, beyond the select partners, including MapMyFitness, that it already works with. Opening Band to third-party apps means not only making… Read More
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Cloud-Based Bio Lab Startup Transcriptic Lands $8.5 Million In Series A Funding To Help It Scale
Months after announcing its Y Combinator partnership and moving into a giant new Menlo Park facility, the robot-operated biolab startup Transcriptic has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding.
Data Collective led the round, with participation from IA Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, 500 Startups, MITS Fund, Y Combinator partner Paul Buchheit and several other angel investors. Read More
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Oral-B’s Bluetooth Toothbrush Offers App Features It Doesn’t Necessarily Need
I once posted a lament sparked by the availability of Bluetooth smart toothbrushes, so of course it was only logical for me to review Oral B’s new Bluetooth 4.0-enabled smart toothbrush. The upgraded electric teeth cleaner communicates with an app on your smartphone, receiving programming instructions and settings and sending back data on your history and track record to let you get a… Read More
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YC Backs Standard Cyborg, A Startup Building Affordable Artificial Limbs
An artificial limb can cost more than a car. And there are an estimated 2 million amputees in the United States alone. So for Jeff Huber, an entrepreneur who had dabbled in education and advertising who happens to also an amputee, this market was close to heart. While an undergraduate at North Carolina State University, he had long thought about how to make prosthetics at a fraction of… Read More
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Snoop Dogg Is Raising A Fund For Investing In Weed Startups
“Invest in what you know.” That’s a common piece of advice given to new investors that Calvin Broadus, Jr. (a.k.a. Snoop Dogg, a.k.a. Snoop Lion) seems to be taking to heart. Sources tell us the prolific rapper, youth football coach, and marijuana aficionado is putting together a fund specifically to invest in cannabis startups. According to one source, he hopes to raise… Read More
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Watch Vestigen’s Project Ara Sensors Show How Modular Smartphones Could Change The World
Project Ara is getting closer to producing a shipping product, and a developer conference in Singapore gave some of those building hardware modules for the Google-made smartphone with swappable parts a chance to show off their coming wares. Vestigen is one such company, which is focused on building smart sensors that can, using various test strips do amazing things ranging from analyzing… Read More
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