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Third Rock Ventures One of Biotechs Daring Investors Raises $616M For More Startups
Forbes | Biotech venture capital is supposed to be the highest-risk/highest-reward type of investment there is. But many biotech VCs are actually pretty conservative, hesitant to wager on edgy science that might take a decade to pay off. Not Third Rock Ventures.
Oct 31, 2016
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Onboarding New Talent Post-IPO Turnover Of Biotech Boards
Forbes | A biotech's Board often plays important roles in shaping the company's success or failure: contributing strategic guidance, providing proper governance, stewarding fiduciary responsibilities, raising a startups' profile, aiding business development, to name a few.
Oct 31, 2016
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Nation’s Report Card Shows Improvement In Science, But There’s Still Work To Do
Bio-IT World | The White House released the National Assessment of Educational Progress, their report card for the nation’s educational systems. In the field of science, Tennessee was among the standouts of those recognized.
Oct 28, 2016
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Internet2, Google, BGI, and More: News from October 2016
Bio-IT World News Briefs | News, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community including news from Internet2, Google, BGI, and more.
Oct 28, 2016
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China National GeneBank Opening Hopes To Provide Resource For Global Health
Bio-IT World Brief | The official opening of the China National GeneBank (CNGB) marks a new phase in Chinese-International genomics collaboration, providing scientists from across the world with access to one of the world's most comprehensive and sophisticated biorepositories with the goal of enabling breakthroughs in human health research, and contributing to global biodiversity conservation efforts.
Oct 26, 2016
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Solving The Lack Of Diversity In Genomic Research
MIT Technology Review | An overwhelming majority of the data collected is from people of European ancestry. But researchers are trying to change that.
Oct 25, 2016
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Chinese Firm Admits Its Hacked Products Were Behind Friday's DDOS Attack
Computerworld | A Chinese electronics component manufacturer says its products inadvertently played a role in a massive cyberattack that disrupted major internet sites in the U.S. on Friday.
Oct 25, 2016
