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Next Week In Biotech: Salix/Valeant PDUFA, ASCO, Brain Tumor Summit
2015-05-23 07:25:35| Logistics - Topix.net
Investors in the biotech/healthcare space should be on the lookout for some activity next week even as the earnings doldrums persist. A thin pile of financial updates will be made up for with an expected regulatory action around Salix's - now Valeant's - Xifaxan.
Paralyzed man drinks first beer in 12 years by moving robotic arm with his brain
2015-05-22 20:34:21| Extremetech
With the help of an implant and a fancy robotic arm, quadraplegic Erik Sorto just drink himself his first beer in twelve years. In a first for neuroscience, he also demonstrated the ability to control the precise activity of single neurons in his brain with specific thoughts, and by implication, control entire specific actions with single neurons.
The Key to Immortality May Be Uploading Your Brain
2015-05-22 13:51:33| Biotech - Topix.net
It is if you buy into computer scientist Ray Kurzweil 's conceit that technological advancements will enable it, particularly if humans preserve their brains in software after their bodies have died. During an interview Monday, Martine Rothblatt, founder of Sirius Satellite Radio and CEO of United Therapeutics, said she agreed with Kurzweil.
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Genentech Brain Trust Raises $217 For New Startup To Fight Alzheimer's And Parkinson's
2015-05-15 05:31:25| Biotech - Topix.net
The news is another sign of both the large amounts of money available to all biotechnology startups and for a financial turnaround for research efforts against brain diseases that have been tough to beat. NeuroPerspective, a newsletter that tracks neurological treatments, says in the past five years the number of drugs being developed by large drugmakers for brain and nervous system disorders fell 50% to 129 - but that last year, investors poured $3.3 billion into the field, more than in any of the last ten years.
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The Right Brain Initiative
2015-05-13 00:27:39| PortlandOnline
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has just awarded The Right Brain Initiative a $30,000 grant!
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