The Second Person to Get a Pig Heart Transplant Just Died
Lawrence Faucette died six weeks after undergoing the experimental procedure involving a genetically engineered pig organ.
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Aether Bio, biotech, Biotech & Health, EC How To, EC Pitch Deck Teardowns, fundraising tactics, pitching advice, Sample Pitch Decks, Startups, Tech Industry, Tech NewsPitch Deck Teardown: Aether’s $49M Series A deck
Read more: Pitch Deck Teardown: Aether’s $49M Series A deckThis pitch deck makes for some really interesting reading and storytelling, so let’s dive in and see if we can spot what happened and how. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy
Read more: New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene TherapyFor the first time, researchers are testing an approach that involves replacing a mutated gene in the inner ears of children with severe hearing loss.
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A Monkey Got a New Kidney From a Pig—and Lived for 2 Years
Read more: A Monkey Got a New Kidney From a Pig—and Lived for 2 YearsHuman donor kidneys are in short supply. A new experiment that tested gene-edited organ transplants in monkeys showed that pig kidneys may one day be viable substitutes.
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Making wearable medical devices more patient-friendly with Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas from Acurable
Read more: Making wearable medical devices more patient-friendly with Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas from AcurableWelcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week, our old friend Darrell Etherington joins Becca Szkutak to talk with Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas from Acurable. Acurable is a medical device company that makes patie…
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A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells
Read more: A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain CellsMini-brains that work and grow like their full-sized counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing, and advance the quest for personalized medicine.
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How Reed Jobs’ venture firm tackles cancer
Read more: How Reed Jobs’ venture firm tackles cancerReed Jobs’ new venture firm can change the lives of the estimated 18.1 million diagnosed cancer patients worldwide. Yosemite, Jobs’ fund for cancer-fighting biotech, launched in August with $200 million in funding from investors like MIT, Memorial Sloa…
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Everything We Know About Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial
Read more: Everything We Know About Neuralink’s Brain Implant TrialElon Musk’s neurotech startup announced that it is now seeking patients with paralysis to test a brain-computer interface.
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Scala Biodesign makes it easy to re-engineer proteins one molecule at a time – or 50
Read more: Scala Biodesign makes it easy to re-engineer proteins one molecule at a time – or 50There’s a gold rush on in biotech as AI and other tools are used to find new drugs and treatments. With $5.5 million in new funding, Scala Biodesign is focusing these methods on a related problem: making existing or promising drugs more practical…
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Brain Implants That Help Paralyzed People Speak Just Broke New Records
Read more: Brain Implants That Help Paralyzed People Speak Just Broke New RecordsTwo new studies show that AI-powered devices can help paralyzed people communicate faster and more accurately.
