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Managing Your Student Loan Payments During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every aspect of life on a global scale. As we are forced to observe varying degrees of shelter-in-place and phased reopenings, millions of Americans are out of work and searching for their next paycheck. If you find yourself in this situation and you have student loan debt, you might be worried about making payments. On the other hand, you may be fortunate enough to make your payments but aren’t sure where to start. Read...
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Myomo® Receives First Australian Insurance Authorization for MyoPro™

Myomo, Inc., a wearable medical robotics company that offers increased functionality for those suffering from neurological disorders and upper-limb paralysis, today announced that a Myomotrained Orthotic & Prosthetic (“O&P”) practice in Australia has received its first insurance authorization to fit a patient with a custom MyoPro device. Read more >>
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TRACER to support Akston Biosciences’ Phase 1 clinical study of AKS-452, an innovative anti-COVID-19 vaccine

BEVERLY, Mass., USA & GRONINGEN, the Netherlands, Sept. 01, 2020 Today, TRACER Europe B.V., a Clinical Research Organization (CRO) specializing in fast-track solutions for testing innovative biologic medicines, announced that it will support Akston Biosciences Inc., a leader in the development of novel Fc fusion protein therapeutics, in the Phase 1 clinical testing in the Netherlands of Akston’s lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AKS-452. Read more >>
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XYLYX BIO releases highly physiologic 2D substrates for improved antifibrotic drug discovery

New York-based Xylyx Bio, a leader in advanced disease models, today announced the release of normal and fibrotic NativeCoat™ human lung- and liver-specific ECM substrates for antifibrotic drug discovery to increase predictiveness of high throughput screening and improve evaluation of efficacy of biopharmaceutical drug candidates for hard to treat fibrotic diseases such as IPF and NASH. Read more >>
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Myomo® Extends and Strengthens its Global MyoPro™ Patent Portfolio

Myomo, Inc., a wearable medical robotics company that offers increased functionality for those suffering from neurological disorders and upper-limb paralysis, today announced additional intellectual property protection with the issuance of new patents in the U.S. and Europe related to MyoPro™, its unique wearable robotic brace for arm and hand paralysis. Read more >>
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Framingham’s Rising Star

At 15, highschooler David Zamarin sold his cleaning company to invest in a new product idea leading to the founding of Framingham-based DetraPel (in comparison, at age 13, Bose Corporation's Amar Bose began repairing radio sets for pocket money for repair shops in Philadelphia.) DetraPel manufactures non-toxic fabric protectors that are gaining world-wide acclaim. Read more >>
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