Category: Editors’ Pick

$9 Billion For Climate Tech Startups, Tesla’s Tough Quarter And Flooding In Yellowstone

This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability.

Gene Genies: Inside The Revolutionary Biotech That Can Edit DNA Inside Living Humans

John Leonard built Intellia Therapeutics with Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who pioneered gene editing technology. Intellia has figured out how to alter disease-causing genes inside patients, but before any breakthrough treatments …

Choreful Aims To Quell Couple Fights With Gamification

On the one evening last year, he decided to, Havre expected Bernsten to clean the table.

InnovationRx: FTC Investigating Cerebral; Plus, FDA Panel OKs Vaccines For Young Kids

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Can We Eradicate Covid? Probably Not. An Infectious Disease Doctor Explains The Challenges

Dr. Mark Kortepeter explains the differences between smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980, and Covid-19 and why the virus is most likely here to stay.

Medicare Advantage Plans Have Great Promise But They Are Not Delivering

Because the government pays plans based on the health status of their members, the insurers find ways to make their patients appear as sick as possible, thus significantly increasing their profits.

Digital Therapeutics Startup Cara Care Raised $7 Million To Fuel Expansion

The company also announced James Mapes as its new CEO.

As Feds Probe Pharma’s Middlemen, Capital Rx Raises $106 Million For Software-Driven Fix

CEO AJ Loiacono wants to infuse transparency into the black back drug pricing system with a clearinghouse model.

A Potential GSK Game Changer And An MRNA Cancer Vaccine: Highlights From The 2022 ASCO Conference

Big pharmaceutical companies reported steady improvements on cancer treatments.

Powassan Virus Kills Woman, 2nd Such Tick-Borne Infection In Connecticut In 2022

Climate change and warmer temperatures have helped the tick population grow and grow.