Tag: cancer
Robots Steadying Surgeons’ Hands Are Permitting Previously Impossible ‘Supermicrosurgery’
Robot technology has found a new use: steadying the hands of surgeons and permitting previously impossible operations.
Doctors in...
Fracking Investigated Following Surge of Rare Cancer Cases in Pennsylvania
Fracking, assailed for its environmental cost while its made the U.S. the world’s top oil producer, is being investigated as a possible...
Blackstone Teams With Swiss Firm Ferring For $570 Million Effort to...
Blackstone, which last year started up a life sciences investing arm, is pouring $400 million into a venture with a Swiss pharmaceutical...
Mursla Wants to Be the First Company to Sell Quantum Biology...
A recent number of studies and funding rounds offered a glimpse into what the new wave of quantum biology research may offer...
Google’s Porat Sees AI as Weapon in Breast Cancer War, as...
Google says it wants to be more than just a search engine for breast-cancer patients -- a point CFO Ruth Porat makes...
Biotech Achilles Raises $120 Million For Trials of Immune System-Harnessing Cancer...
Achilles Therapeutics’s raising of $120 million to conduct clinical trials of a cancer treatment underscores the promise of therapies that use immune...
Putin’s Daughter to Manage $633 Million Advanced Cancer Treatment Project
Maria Vorontsova, who is reported to be President Vladimir Putin’s eldest daughter, is a shareholder of a company involved in the development...
BioNTech, Melding AI, Robotics and Biotech, Nets $325 Million for Vaccine...
German start-up BioNTech raised $325 million in private funding, one of the largest hauls for a European biopharma company, which will help...
DNA Robots May Soon Help Fight Breast Cancer in Humans
Scientists are seen close to delivering on a years-long promise -- molecule-scale nanorobots that destroy breast cancer proteins at their most basic,...
Christian Bailey: “I realized there wasn’t someone connecting the solutions that...
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Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in America, with...