Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSOn today’s podcast, Cofactor Genomics COO, Dr. David Messina discusses how his company is working to make personalized medicine a reality by focusing on the potential of RNA as a diagnostic tool. Unlike DNA, which is set in stone... Read more
Obesity drug developer, Gila Therapeutics, recently took a big step toward FDA approval for its new weight control treatment, completing its Phase I clinical trial in August. Gila is developing a novel intra-oral delivery of PYY, a well-known satiety hormone, to help... Read more
I learned three important lesson about innovation early in my career as an engineer at McDonnell Douglas. It was 1989 and I was assigned to work on the Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet, a carrier-based fighter jet. Originally designed in 1976, the F/A-18 was planned to remain... Read more
Neuros Medical, part of the iSelect healthcare portfolio since 2016, closed a $20 million Series AA financing round, led by U.S. Venture Partners and joined by iSelect, Boston Scientific, Aperture Venture Partners, Osage University Partners, and JumpStart, Inc. Neuros... Read more
Physicians have been fascinated with blood and the circulatory system for hundreds of years. Records dating back to early Roman times prove that bloodletting was in wide use as a treatment for disease at least 2,000 years ago, and leeches have been used in medicine... Read more
By David Messina, PhD This is an amazing time to be in biology. In fact, I like to say that right now we’re in a place that’s a lot like where personal computers were in 1987. In those days, PCs were pretty limited in what they could do. They still ran off of floppy... Read more