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Health/Life Sciences

Jan 30, 2018, 10:54 AM

Four things we wish we knew about Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway’s health venture

Three giant U.S. companies — Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway — announced Tuesday that they will form their own… Read More

Jan 30, 2018, 9:00 AM

As health tech booms, new census counts more than 460 health startups in Washington state

The health industry is changing in a massive way. Technology is having a huge impact on medicine, biotechnology and hospitals… Read More

Jan 30, 2018, 4:41 AM

Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway to form their own healthcare tech company

Three of the world’s most influential business leaders — Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon — are bringing their… Read More

Jan 29, 2018, 10:16 AM

Benaroya Research Institute awarded $5M grant to study personalized treatments for peanut allergies

Millions of people around the world suffer from food allergies, but we still know very little about how those allergies… Read More

Cloned monkeys
Jan 24, 2018, 6:15 PM

Chinese team clones monkeys from fetal cells, raising qualms about human cloning

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai have produced identical primate clones using the same… Read More

Jan 24, 2018, 3:29 PM

Tech Moves: Amazon hires top doc; Geir Hansen leaves SVB; Acumatica board adds ex-Microsoft Business Solutions chief

Amazon is continuing to bolster its health care game. The company recently hired Dr. Martin Levine, a longtime Seattle doctor… Read More

Jan 23, 2018, 10:23 AM

Why Celgene decided to buy Juno Therapeutics for $9B — with a little help from U.S. tax reform

When Celgene announced Monday that it will acquire Seattle-based biotech Juno Therapeutics for $9 billion, the development was a surprise… Read More

Jan 22, 2018, 7:52 AM

Juno Therapeutics acquired by Celgene for $9B in dramatic deal for rising biotech star

Juno Therapeutics, the Seattle-based biotech company making cutting-edge cancer immunotherapy treatments, has reached a deal to be acquired by New Jersey-based… Read More

Jan 19, 2018, 12:31 PM

NurseGrid raises $5.7M for scheduling and staffing tech platform for nurses

Operating a hospital is no easy task, and at the moment, finding technology to help in that task is also… Read More

Jan 17, 2018, 9:34 AM

Juno Therapeutics stock surges 50% as Celgene is reportedly in talks to buy the company

New Jersey-based biotech giant Celgene is in talks to buy Seattle-based biotech Juno Therapeutics, according to a report in the… Read More

Jan 16, 2018, 10:34 AM

Amazon’s health ambitions confirmed? Company seeks medical data compliance leader for mysterious new initiative

Amazon appears to be preparing for a serious move into the world of health. GeekWire has unearthed an Amazon job… Read More

Jan 15, 2018, 11:29 AM

Researchers unveil biomaterials that ‘act like autonomous computers’ to deliver drugs

Drugs and other treatments can be life-saving, but sometimes those life-saving abilities can also have harmful side effects. Researchers at… Read More

Jan 10, 2018, 10:44 AM

Health Tech Podcast: How AI is making humans the ‘fundamental thing in the internet of things’

Twenty years ago, in 1998, you would have been hard-pressed to find a single hospital room with a personal computer… Read More

Jan 8, 2018, 9:18 AM

Stratos Genomics raises $20M to commercialize fast DNA sequencing technology

Faster, cheaper DNA sequencing technology has revolutionized medicine in the past ten years. The tech provides the backbone for breakthroughs… Read More

Jan 5, 2018, 11:23 AM

Gene therapy startup Immusoft raises $3M, appoints new CEO as it approaches clinical trials

Immusoft is looking to get its gene therapy technology into clinical trials, and the Seattle startup announced Friday that it… Read More

Jan 4, 2018, 5:00 AM

Microsoft partners with Adaptive Biotech on AI-driven blood test to diagnose dozens of diseases at once

The human immune system is incredibly complex and incredibly smart. Your immune system knows when you’re getting sick, sometimes days,… Read More

Dec 27, 2017, 12:00 PM

Joylux raising $5M as it prepares to launch its ‘intimate wellness’ device in the U.S.

Sexual health, and particularly women’s sexual health, can often be overlooked by the medical industry. Seattle-based startup Joylux is hoping… Read More

Dec 21, 2017, 11:00 AM

Study: ‘Universal’ flu vaccine uses advanced genetic tech to fight the bug more effectively

The flu is a smart virus — it’s constantly changing and adapting, rewriting its genetic code to better invade our bodies.… Read More

Robert Overell
Dec 15, 2017, 9:49 AM

Seattle biotech company PhaseRX files for bankruptcy, just 19 months after going public

In May of last year, biotech company PhaseRX broke an unprecedented IPO drought in Seattle with its $18.5 million initial public… Read More

Accelerator Life Science Partners
Dec 14, 2017, 12:09 PM

Accelerator Corp. announces new leadership and renames to Accelerator Life Science Partners

Accelerator Corp., a Seattle-based life sciences investment fund, is making some big changes. The firm announced two additions to its… Read More

Synthetic nucleocapsid design
Dec 13, 2017, 10:09 AM

Scientists steal tricks from a virus to build proteins into capsules for drug delivery

University of Washington researchers have taken a page from the viral playbook to create microscopic assemblies for packaging genetic material —… Read More

Dec 11, 2017, 10:45 AM

Study finds differences between adult and childhood leukemia, calls for developing age-specific cancer treatments

A study conducted by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, with contributions from researchers across North America, has found stark differences… Read More

Dec 10, 2017, 3:09 PM

Report: Providence considering merger that would create the biggest health system in the country

News Brief: Seattle-based Providence St. Joseph Health and St. Louis-based Ascension Health are in talks about a potential merger, according… Read More

Retinal damage
Dec 7, 2017, 5:30 PM

How seconds of staring at the solar eclipse led to a world of hurt for one woman

A medical case reported today in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology proved the wisdom of all those warnings not to stare… Read More

Dec 7, 2017, 2:39 PM

FDA announces new guidelines for regulating medical software

News Brief: The Food and Drug Administration released new guidance for developers making medical software Thursday, clarifying which kinds of… Read More

Dec 7, 2017, 10:53 AM

CVS, Amazon and the ‘mass freak-out’: How tech is reshaping the healthcare industry

In October, something fairly normal happened: CNBC reported that Amazon might disrupt yet another industry, pharmaceuticals. The tech giant was… Read More

Dec 6, 2017, 10:30 AM

UW, Seattle Children’s and Fred Hutch launch $50M Institute for Precision Medicine, using genetics to revolutionize health

When the Human Genome Project launched in 1990, it was a scientific undertaking unlike anything the world had seen. Building… Read More

Dec 5, 2017, 2:30 AM

Feeling blue? Biotech startup raises $13M to create ‘natural’ color pigments using algae

We all love a splash of color in our lives, but we seldom realize the technology that goes into the… Read More

Dec 4, 2017, 11:36 AM

Amazon’s flirtation with pharmaceuticals may have driven CVS to acquire health insurer Aetna for $69B

CVS is buying one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, Aetna, for $69 billion, and analysts and observers say… Read More

Dec 3, 2017, 9:00 AM

With $1M in funding, Phase Genomics looks to crack genetic codes and discover unknown bacteria

Bacteria lurk pretty much anywhere you look, in numbers and varieties worthy of a horror movie. The challenge for scientists… Read More

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