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Every year, BioSpace analyzes the biotech industry, looking for the hot new biotech startups to watch. Here’s a look at the top 3 companies from the Top 30 Life Science Startups to Watch in the U.S. from 2015.
Synthego Snags $110 Million in Series C to Advance Vision of Making CRISPR Technology More Available
Genome engineering company Synthego received an infusion of $110 million from a Series C financing round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s vision to make CRISPR technology more accessible to researchers.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 7 percent increase in jobs for biomedical engineers and a 13 percent increase in medical scientists.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins, the University of California, San Diego, and the National Institute of Mental Health grew retinas in petri dishes, and discovered fundamental factors involved in the development of vision and color vision.
Recently, BioSpace posted a question on its website, under the heading, “We Want to Hear from You! Top Life Sciences Trends.” Let’s take a look at the five trends survey participants mentioned.
As gene therapies have become reality, the U.S. government is removing some special regulations that had been set up long ago over concerns of exotic safety risks.
Express Scripts is already known for its role of bringing prescriptions to the doors of consumers. Now the company is moving into a new area of providing medicines—expensive gene therapies.
A little more than one year after Flagship Pioneering launched Sigilon Therapeutics, the company has a new chief executive officer. This morning Sigilon announced Bioverativ veteran Rogerio Vivaldi will helm the Cambridge, Mass.-based company.
Gene therapy has been a dream for many researchers for decades—inserting a healthier gene into patients’ cells to replace defective genes and curing diseases. One disease that would seem to be a good target for gene therapy is hemophilia.
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