There are a lot of startups looking at your DNA these days but uBiome stands out as unique among them for testing the DNA of microorganisms found in your fecal matter. These bugs have a lot to do with your health and the startup is launching a clinical screening test called SmartGut to sequence...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Friday, 28 October 2016
Jeff Bezos, Mayo Clinic back anti-aging startup Unity Biotechnology for $116 million
Every once in a while someone in Silicon Valley brings up the possibility of living forever, or at least a really long time, but first we’re going to need to figure out a way to enjoy all those extra years. Unity Biotechnology is a startup focusing on medicines to help us do that by slowing the...
Thursday, 27 October 2016
23andMe reportedly laid off nearly half a dozen staff working on next-gen sequencing
23andMe won’t continue on with next-generation DNA sequencing and has reportedly laid off the lab working on the project. About half-a-dozen workers were laid off from the Salt Lake City, Utah-based lab, according to BuzzFeed, which first reported the news. By our own count based on LinkedIn,...
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
AT&T will offer $35 subscription with 100 channels and includes mobile streaming
AT&T announced it will offer a special $35 per month content package to celebrate the announcement it was hitching up with Time Warner. AT&T announced this last weekend it wants to buy Time Warner for $85 billion. The deal, announced on stage at the Wall Street Journal Live conference...
Lyft picked up 17 million rides in October, up more than twice that amount from last year
Lyft launched an aggressive marketing campaign in Spring that seems to be paying off. The rideshare company says it delivered 17 million rides this month (so far), more than 2.4x’s the amount the company did at the same time last year. Data from research firm 7Park also shows Lyft gaining...
Netflix’s Reed Hastings believes AT&T Time Warner merger could be good for consumers
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings isn’t bothered by the idea of a marriage between mobile powerhouse AT&T and HBO’s parent company Time Warner, “As long as HBO’s bits and Netflix’s bits are treated the same [by regulators],” he said. Hastings, who was speaking at the Wall Street Journal Live conference...
Monday, 24 October 2016
Weed on-demand startup Eaze inhales $13 million in funding to grow into new markets
The “Uber for weed” startup Eaze has grown quite a bit over the last year and it intends to expand even more. To get it there, Eaze has closed on $13 million in Series B funding from Fresh VC, Doll Capital Management (DCM) and Tusk Ventures. Eaze launched in July of 2014 to help medical marijuana...