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Senti Bio raises $105 million for its new programmable biology platform and cancer therapies

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Senti Biosciences , a company developing cancer therapies using a new programmable biology platform, said it has raised $105 million in a new round of financing led by the venture arm of life sciences giant Bayer. “ When the company was started it was a bag of tools and the know-how on how to use them,” Lu said. .

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Sequoia India’s Surge backs healthtech startup RedBrick AI in $4.6M funding

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million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge as it plans to expand the market for its medical imagery annotations solution. The annotated imagery can also be used by surgical robots and to automate detection of cancers. funding by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch.

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Bot MD, an AI-based chatbot for doctors, raises $5 million for expansion into more Asian markets

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The funding will be used to expand in the Asia-Pacific region, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, and to add new features in response to demand from hospitals and healthcare organizations during COVID-19. MIT and Boston Dynamics team up on ‘Dr.

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ScienceIO leaves stealth with millions to structure health data

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In 2018, the budding entrepreneur was working with a Boston-based cancer research company and FlatIron Health to see how cancer patients, mutations in their cancer and health outcomes were all related. It’s about incredible depth across every subject area, and the totality of the patient without minimizing them.”.

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Programmable genetics gets more cash as Tessera Therapeutics gets a $230 million infusion

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Tessera Therapeutics , the Boston-based spin-up from Flagship Pioneering, is the latest company to enter the mix with $230 million in new financing to build up its platform for better biological programming. The round was led by Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.,

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

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This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History.

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Ghana’s Redbird raises $1.5M seed to expand access to rapid medical testing in sub-Saharan Africa

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Investors who participated in the round include Johnson & Johnson Foundation , Newton Partners (via the Imperial Venture Fund), and Founders Factory Africa. As a founding scientist at a medical diagnostics startup in Boston, Beattie’s job was to develop new rapid diagnostic tests.

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