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Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown

Tomas Kellner
May 14, 2018
Boston is home to what might be the world’s premier biotechnology cluster. It includes big pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Sanofi, plucky upstarts such as Editas Medicine, a gene-editing company, and many research labs. GE’s own biotechnology business, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, recently moved its U.S. headquarters into the area.
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Zika

A Call To Arms: Scientists Use Biotech Tools To Crack Open Zika's Genetic Code

August 04, 2016

Officials have begun spraying insecticide in a 10-square-mile area north of downtown Miami this week to eradicate Zika-carrying mosquitoes, but researchers still must answer many of the most fundamental questions relating to the virus -- and support for their efforts is coming from some unlikely places. 

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Biologics

Gone Protein Fishing: Sweden Is Building A Hub For Medicine’s Future In The Home Of Its Past

July 20, 2016
The Swedish town of Uppsala has been a center of medical innovation for the past 350 years. In 1663, the University of Uppsala opened an anatomical theatre built into the cupola of the Gustavianum, the main building on the Uppsala University campus. Inside, future doctors and also the paying public watched from narrow, tiered, octagonal balconies as professors dissected executed criminals and animals.
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