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Industrial Impact

Laronde | August 30, 2021

Laronde, the company pioneering Endless RNA™ a novel, engineered form of RNA that can be programmed to express therapeutic proteins inside the body, today announced that it has raised $440 Million in a Series B Financing to advance the development of its eRNA platform and a broad pipeline of programs across a number of therapeutic categories. The financing round included the company's founder, Flagship Pioneering, along with funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.,...

Diagnostics

Lucid Diagnostics | March 25, 2022

Lucid Diagnostics Inc., a commercial-stage cancer prevention diagnostics company and a majority-owned subsidiary of PAVmed Inc, announced that investigators at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center had enrolled their first patient in a Department of Defense ("DoD")- Katarina B. Greer, M.D., an associate professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, is the lead investigator of the research. Lucid supplies the...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Exact Sciences Corporation | January 10, 2022

Exact Sciences Corp. announced it has acquired PreventionGenetics, a genetic testing laboratory, to complement its advanced cancer diagnostics portfolio and support its entrance into hereditary cancer testing (HCT). PreventionGenetics provides the clinical lab, expertise, and foundational technology necessary to accelerate the availability of HCT and help more patients know their germline risk of cancer and other diseases. "PreventionGenetics is a natura...

BioSpace | February 27, 2020

Medicinal Genomics (MGC), a pioneer in harnessing cannabis genomics to improve the agricultural productivity, safety, and transparency of cannabis, today announced its new PathoSEEK® 5-Color Aspergillus Multiplex Assay that independently identifies four species of pathogenic Aspergillus— A. flavus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, and A. terreus — on cannabis samples using just one qPCR reaction. This new Aspergillus assay is the first and only qPCR multiplex that can satisfy the Californ...