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Health/Life Sciences

Aug 7, 2019, 10:16 AM

Adaptive Biotechnologies will triple size of its Seattle HQ following IPO

Adaptive Biotechnologies is charting a massive expansion of its Seattle headquarters following the completion of a recent initial public offering.… Read More

Aug 6, 2019, 10:31 AM

Healthcare IT software maker Medstreaming raises cash to help hospitals and researchers analyze data

Medstreaming is raising investment to help hospitals and researchers analyze their data with artificial intelligence. The Redmond, Wash.-based healthcare IT… Read More

Aug 6, 2019, 10:10 AM

Women’s health startup Genneve lands $4M to grow telemedicine service for menopause

Genneve, a Seattle startup that runs a telemedicine service for women experiencing menopause, landed a $4 million seed round led… Read More

Aug 6, 2019, 4:00 AM

Cancer-fighting startup Neoleukin merging with Aquinox in $40M deal, 8 months after UW spinout

Vancouver, B.C.-based Aquinox Pharmaceuticals is set to buy Neoleukin Therapeutics, a Seattle startup that launched out of the University of… Read More

Aug 1, 2019, 6:00 AM

Accolade uses acquisition of MD Insider to launch doctor-picking concierge

Healthcare technology company Accolade is getting back to basics with a service that helps patients with a fundamental healthcare need:… Read More

Jul 30, 2019, 10:58 AM

Neuroscientists fine-tune brain-to-speech translator – but there’s a long road ahead

Neuroscientists have demonstrated a computerized system that can determine in real time what’s being said, based on brain activity rather… Read More

Jul 30, 2019, 10:00 AM

Microsoft, Amazon, other tech giants forge ahead on healthcare data sharing pledge

This past August, executives from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce banded together to promote data sharing in healthcare.… Read More

Jul 29, 2019, 10:56 AM

Medical device startup Sterifre nabs $8M to launch sterilization technology

Sterifre Medical raised an $8 million round to fuel development of products that rapidly disinfect healthcare devices, bringing the startup’s… Read More

Jul 26, 2019, 3:32 PM

Startup Spotlight: YouScript warns doctors of ‘metabolic traffic jams’ caused by prescription drugs

Modern drugs are lifesavers. But they can — and frequently do — cause more harm than good. Here’s a staggering… Read More

Jul 25, 2019, 6:00 AM

Former Microsoft exec Stefan Weitz wants to build authentic startups, and he’s starting with probiotics

Stefan Weitz is untroubled by long odds. As a former Microsoft director, he was the one who the company turned… Read More

Jul 24, 2019, 9:21 PM

Cancer drugmaker Seattle Genetics raises $575 million in stock offering

Seattle Genetics sold more than 8 million shares in a stock offering that brought in $575 million for the company… Read More

Jul 18, 2019, 8:00 AM

Gene found in embryos can cloak cancer from common immunotherapy methods, researchers find

The question of why immunotherapy eradicates cancer in some people while having little effect on the majority of patients has… Read More

Jul 16, 2019, 3:40 PM

Seattle Genetics shares rise on strong Adcetris sales, $218M in revenue for Q2

Cancer drugmaker Seattle Genetics reported stronger-than-expected revenues for the second quarter as its stock rose more than 8 percent in… Read More

Jul 12, 2019, 3:38 PM

Hearing-loss drugmaker Sound Pharmaceuticals posts strong clinical results, eyes a $100M IPO

Sound Pharmaceuticals, a Seattle-based drugmaker that is creating a first-of-its-kind treatment for hearing loss, recently reported encouraging top-line results from… Read More

Jul 12, 2019, 9:00 AM

Microsoft joins with Pacific NW medical research institutions on data discovery platform

Microsoft is teaming up with leading medical research organizations to create a shared network of research data in the Pacific… Read More

Jul 10, 2019, 11:48 AM

UK’s National Health Service taps Amazon’s Alexa to field common medical questions

The UK’s National Health Service is making Alexa available to millions of patients in another sign that voice technology is… Read More

Jul 8, 2019, 5:13 PM

Seattle biotech startup OncoSenX raises $3M to develop tumor-killing therapeutics

Story updated with comments from Scholz below. Seattle biotech startup OncoSenX has reeled in $3 million to advance its pipeline… Read More

Jul 8, 2019, 1:58 PM

Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph Health team up to improve healthcare efficiency

Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph Health announced a new partnership Monday designed to bring the healthcare institution’s vast clinical data… Read More

Jul 3, 2019, 10:00 AM

Saykara upgrades voice assistant for doctors with independent note-taking skill

Seattle-based digital health startup Saykara wants to free clinicians from the mountains of paperwork that await them at the end… Read More

Jun 29, 2019, 9:31 AM

Inside a ‘rapid innovation session’ as Gates Foundation and Xinova fight malaria with tech

Ask a room full of people how to fight malaria, and you’ll likely hear about bed nets, vaccines and healthcare… Read More

Jun 27, 2019, 2:34 PM

Big debut: Shares of Adaptive Biotechnologies rise 100% on first day as public company

Adaptive Biotechnologies had a heck of a first day as a public company. Shares of the Seattle-based biotech, which makes… Read More

Jun 27, 2019, 8:08 AM

Adaptive Biotechnologies stock soars 90% after ringing Nasdaq opening bell following $300M IPO

Follow-up: Big debut: Shares of Adaptive Biotechnologies rise 100% on first day as public company The public market is bullish… Read More

Jun 26, 2019, 9:27 AM

Adaptive Biotechnologies set to go public with valuation above $2B in biggest biotech IPO of 2019

Adaptive Biotechnologies has raised the price for its initial public offering, putting itself in a position to raise more cash… Read More

Jun 25, 2019, 1:01 PM

Why this former spine surgeon built an incubator for healthcare startups in Seattle

Dr. Jeffrey Roh started his career as an entrepreneur after creating a method for a less invasive form of spine… Read More

Jun 24, 2019, 10:57 AM

Bristol-Myers deal to acquire Juno parent Celgene delayed amid FTC concerns

The $74 billion merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene has been delayed as FTC pushback spurred Celgene to divest a… Read More

Jun 21, 2019, 9:57 AM

Healthcare tech company Accolade to double headcount in Seattle with new HQ office

Four years after establishing a second headquarters in Seattle, healthcare technology company Accolade is betting big on the city once… Read More

Jun 20, 2019, 12:31 PM

Former HHS tech chief says biohackers are the ‘Lewis and Clark’ of healthcare data

As U.S. federal agencies work to define how healthcare data should be shared, Susannah Fox, the former chief technology officer… Read More

Jun 20, 2019, 9:08 AM

Digital prescription marketplace Xealth closes $14M round as healthcare providers bet on startup

The healthcare industry is racing toward a future in which both your general health and diseases will be managed, in… Read More

Sujal Patel
Jun 20, 2019, 8:00 AM

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel building mysterious biotech startup, backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Sujal Patel has seen a world-changing trend coming before. In 2001, in his mid-20s, he founded data storage technology company… Read More

Jun 19, 2019, 1:12 PM

Amgen and University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design team up to build better cancer drugs

Biotech giant Amgen is putting up the money to fund three research projects in partnership with the University of Washington’s… Read More

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