07Sep
06Sep
How Amazon’s cloud business generates billions in profit
...One competing cloud storage provider is privately held Wasabi. Rather than offering a huge range of services like AWS, Wasabi focuses on only data storage, and it charges about one-fifth the price of Amazon S3, said David Friend, Wasabi’s CEO. Read more >>
04Sep
NEXT Venture Pitch finalists
...Billed as the “premiere venture pitch of the Carolinas,” NEXT gives entrepreneurs a chance to pitch ideas to investors, venture capitalists and community leaders. One of the six finalists is: Zylö Therapeutics — Next-gen, topical drug delivery systems. Read more >>
03Sep
Xylyx Bio Awarded $2.2M NIH SBIR Fast-Track Grant from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Xylyx Bio, Inc., a biotechnology company developing groundbreaking solutions for drug discovery and tissue modeling and repair, announced today that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Fast-Track grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance development of an anti-fibrotic drug testing platform that will help scientists discover and test drug candidates for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Read more >>
03Sep
eSight glasses help the legally blind to see
eSight Eyewear has created a head-set device that can enhance the vision of people with more than 20 different eye conditions, including macular degeneration, some forms of glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and Stargardt disease. Read more >>
02Sep
10 PORTFOLIO COMPANIES TO WATCH IN 2022
10 portfolio companies to watch in 2022 selected by Ziad Moukheiber President Boston Harbor Angels. The list is in alphabetical order / Akston Bioscienceshttps://www.akstonbio.com/ Archer Roosehttps://archerroose.com/ Astrocyte Pharmaceuticalshttps://www.astrocytepharma.com/ Cytoagentshttps://www.cytoagents.com/ Futurefuel.iohttps://futurefuel.io/ Revbiohttps://revbio.com/ S'Morehttps://www.smoredate.com/ Wasabi Technologieshttps://wasabi.com/ Winter Innovationshttps://www.winter-innovations.com/ Xeno Bioscienceshttps://www.xenobiosciences.com/
02Sep
Xylyx Bio partners with Inventia Life Science to develop tissue-specific, digitally-printed bioinks for drug discovery
Xylyx Bio, a New York-based leader in advanced biomaterials, and Inventia Life Science, a Sydney-based biotechnology company, today announced their strategic partnership following promising results developing more realistic, scalable, and reproducible 3D cell cultures for drug discovery and biomedical research. Read more >>
01Sep
More accessible Covid-19 vaccines and community engagement key for rural areas
...Fortunately, many of these challenges may be alleviated when second-generation Covid vaccines come on the market. One candidate currently in Phase II trials, Akston Biosciences' AKS-452, is shelf-stable for six months at room temperature and can even withstand temperatures up to 37°C for one month. Crucially, this allows the jab to be transported and stored for months without refrigeration. Read more >>
30Aug
The Best Canned Wines To Pack For Your Next Outdoor Adventure
...While most wine labels select grapes from one particular vineyard or region, Archer Roose sources fruit from countries around the globe, including France, Argentina, Chile, and Greece. Choose from Malbec, Sauvignon Blanc, Rosé, Bubbly, or Rodi Rosé — a skin-macerated orange wine (which is rare to find in cans). Read more >>
21Aug