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Biotech
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The Right Coast
So You Want to Live Forever | The Weekly Standard
The British-born de Grey, with a doctorate in biology from Cambridge, is also the single most colorful figure in the living-forever movement, where colorful figures generously abound. I look as…
The Healthcare Investor
Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Adaptive Biotechnologies Secures $105 Million in Financing
Adaptive Biotechnologies has announced it has completed a series C financing round and completed a newly created series D round of financing with a $105 million investment from Viking Global…
Food Safety News
Plant Biotechnology Industry Rolls Out Site to Address Top Consumer Questions
By Dan Flynn
The plant biotechnology industry, which, until now, treated those who questioned genetically engineered plants as unwashed Luddites who weren’t worth anyone’s time or attention, is well into a new approach.…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Prisoners Could Serve ‘1,000 Year Sentences In 8.5 Hours’ In The Future”
Main March 18, 2014"Prisoners Could Serve '1,000 Year Sentences In 8.5 Hours' In The Future"The title of this post is the headline of this awesome new article that an awesome…
Cam Law
Stem cell therapies engender changing regulatory environment
Accelerating technologies are changing the regulatory environment to accommodate novel approaches to treating disease--stem cell laws being a case in point. We've published several posts and expect to expand these…
GlobalTort
19X Excess Risk of Death – What Does It Mean?
By Kirk Hartley
Are you in general healthy? Are you free of the major risk factors for near term death (smoking, obesity, excess alcohol, lack of exercise, poor diet lacking in fruit and…
GlobalTort
Stem Cell Colonies Develop After Signaling by Killer T-Cells to Niche Cells
By Kirk Hartley
"Nine blood stem cell colonies are illustrated in the image, which have developed into differentiated cell types, particularly into white blood cells (leukocytes).") (Photo courtesy of the Department of Clinical Research of…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Virtual Currency, Biotechnology IP, Real Estate: New Blogs Joining the LexBlog Network
I've said it in these posts so many times before, but we at LexBlog are proud of all the AmLaw 200 firms we have the opportunity to partner with—and it's…
Food Safety News
Mayor of Kauai Vetoes Bill to Limit Pesticide Testing
By News Desk
The mayor of the Hawaiian island of Kauai has vetoed a bill that would have placed restrictions on pesticides used by biotech companies on the island for testing purposes. The…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Google, Google, Google….looking for the fountain of youth
By Kim Dayton
Via the L.A. Times:Google announced earlier this week that that it's a major investor in a venture that would work on combating aging and disease. But Google declined to provide…