The round was led by France-based, Sofinnova Partners, and San Francisco’s Redmile Group, who co-invested on equal terms. In conjunction with the financing, Sofinnova’s Tom Burt and Redmile Group’s Rob Faulkner will join the board of the UK firm. Cyto-Mine single cell analysis system © Sphere Fluidics “We will use the funding to grow our
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It’s never easy deciding when to quit vs. when to persist. With any ambition in life, there will be challenges and obstacles in your way. Most of the the time the answer is to stick with it, endure, practice discipline, and grind it out. But in some instances, the best option, the brave option, is
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Los adolescentes que están bien integrados en su entorno, participan frecuentemente en actividades deportivas, mantienen buenas relaciones interpersonales y rechazan la violencia tienden a estar menos envueltos en fenómenos de acoso escolar. Esta es la principal conclusión de un estudio que hemos elaborado en la Universidad de Córdoba entre un total de 1035 adolescentes de
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I’m Jo. I’m 37 years old. I have a great husband and a beautiful daughter who makes me proud every day. I studied and practised law for many years at one of the world’s premier law firms. I have an undeniably privileged and comfortable life and, as a white, privately-schooled, university-educated, heterosexual, cisgender woman in
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Safe, in-person school during the COVID-19 pandemic requires research that involves community engagement in underserved or vulnerable areas of the United States, writes Alison Cernich, Ph.D., deputy director of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and colleagues. Earlier studies on safety measures in schools (e.g., masking, physical distancing
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LOS ANGELES, CA — Treat-to-target protocols for patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis exist in the literature outside of the United States, but consensus efforts focused on treat-to-target in the United States are limited, according to Zelma Chiesa Fuxench, MD, MSCE. Dr Zelma Chiesa Fuxench “While they tell you what you should strive for, they don’t really
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Earlier this year, the World Health Organization announced a global campaign to combat ageism — discrimination against older adults that is pervasive and harmful but often unrecognized. “We must change the narrative around age and ageing” and “adopt strategies to counter” ageist attitudes and behaviors, WHO concluded in a major report accompanying the campaign. Several
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The two recipients, MigVax Ltd, Israel, and the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), Canada, are seeking to establish preclinical proof of concept for novel vaccines suitable for use in low-and middle-income countries that are broadly protective against COVID-19 variants. Funding of $4.3m will go to MigVax to support the initial development
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Trucks move goods on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Grafton, MA. David L. Ryan | Boston Globe | Getty Images Most truckers are not covered by President Joe Biden’s Covid vaccine and testing requirements for private businesses, according to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, a win for an industry that had warned of potential walkouts that would
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Edible insects in focus part III: Farming, from Mexico to Ontario to Israel… ‘At this point, if you’re still in business, you definitely know what you’re doing’ “In the beginning, like a lot of people, we just went out, bought some crickets, and started raising them in a small room, but the bridge from being
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Operators continue to disagree on the necessity of conducting a randomized controlled trial of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in people with bicuspid anatomy, a prominent group that had been excluded from the landmark trials. The interest in TAVR for this group comes at a time when operators already produce excellent outcomes with surgery. Although
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