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These 10 biotech companies are changing how we discover new drugs and treat complex diseases

Fast Company Tech

The study, which is open to babies born at New York-Presbyterian Hospitals, has sequenced more than 17,000 newborns to date. GeneDx has also partnered with the New York Center for Rare Diseases at Montefiore,PacBio, and Google Health to deliver genetic diagnoses forBronxfamilies living with rare diseases.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively for the Museum of Modern Art (New York). Jude Children’s Research Hospital continue to treat and defeat childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. 16) MoMa Design Store :: store.moma.org. 3) Lipslut :: lipslut.com.

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48 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively for the Museum of Modern Art (New York). Jude Children’s Research Hospital continue to treat and defeat childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. 10) Human Rights Campaign Nonprofit Store :: shop.hrc.org.

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Radio and TV host Larry King dies at 87

The Verge

King started his career in local radio in Florida in the 1950s, according to the New York Times obituar y, and began a national radio call-in show in 1978. Last summer, two of King’s children died within weeks of each other ; Chaia King, 52, had been diagnosed with lung cancer and Andy King, 65, suffered a heart attack.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.” You were born to do this!”

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This startup says its AI can better spot a healthy embryo — and improve IVF success

TechCrunch

This is true of skin cancer detection , for example, and lung cancers. Still, Embryonics is interesting for its potential to shake up a big market that’s been stuck for decades and continues to grow only because of external trends, like millennial women who are putting off having children owing to economic concerns.

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A Couple of Do Good iPhone Apps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You'll find reviews of iPhone apps from the Olympics , National Center for Missing Children , the San Jose Museum , and others. One of the more exciting iPhone apps to appear in the last month or so is CauseWorld that uses a new form of "embedded" giving that I dubbed " Foot Traffic Philanthropy." New York Philharmonic.