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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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C2i, a genomics SaaS product to detect traces of cancer, raises $100M Series B

TechCrunch

If you or a loved one has ever undergone a tumor removal as part of cancer treatment, you’re likely familiar with the period of uncertainty and fear that follows. Will the cancer return, and if so, will the doctors catch it at an early enough stage? The biggest question in cancer treatment is, ‘Is it working?’

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to shatter previous records by reaching at least $218.3 Classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively for the Museum of Modern Art (New York). billion in 2021.

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48 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to increase 14 percent to $163 billion in 2019. Classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively for the Museum of Modern Art (New York). 14) National Wildlife Federation Store :: shopnwf.org.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Ellen Toscano, 2024 Bid Master Winner Voted as the Top National Auctioneer Ellen Toscano (yoursingingauctioneer.com) , voted as the top national benefit auctioneer of 2024 is the founder, CEO and Principal Auctioneer of The Singing Auctioneer LLC, has been a professional singer, actress and stage performer her whole life.

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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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An Interview With Facebook’s Libby Leffler: Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We featured her as a guest on our Facebook Live program at WEF interviewed by New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. We hosted a roundtable at the 2012 Social Innovation Summit in New York and recently participated on a panel at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Chicago.

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