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UConn/JAX professor to study repeated DNA

About 50% of human DNA today is made of duplicated sequences that are the remnants of transposition events that took place in our evolutionary history....

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Yale scientists capture dynamic brain activity

Scientists routinely capture images of the brain in action by focusing on single molecules, cells, or circuits. But visualizing how these tiny units interact to...

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Cybrexa expands anticancer pipeline

Cybrexa Therapeutics reports it is expanding the application of its proprietary alphalex™ platform to include toxin conjugates and additional next generation synthetic lethality targets. Two...

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UConn advances Prader-Willi research

A group of researchers from the UConn School of Medicine have received a nearly $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate...

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Connecticut Innovations interviews Cybrexa CEO

Connecticut Innovations sat down with Per Hellsund, president and CEO of Cybrexa Therapeutics, a bioscience startup whose technology targets cancer tumors. Here’s what he had...

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Hyperfine gets partnership, NanoViricides gets cash

Hyperfine Research has announced a partnership with Penn Medicine. The five-year-old startup, founded by genetics pioneer and New Haven native Jonathan Rothberg and housed in his 4Catalyzer...

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BioXcel to initiate pivotal Phase 3 studies

BioXcel Therapeutics has reached a general agreement with the FDA on the key elements of the designs for its SERENITY (Sub-Lingual DExmedetomidine in Agitation Associated With SchizophRENIa...

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Stamford VC invests in pharma AI firm

Point72 Ventures reports that it is leading a $17 million fundraising round for a startup that produces software to speed up clinical trials. The startup...

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JAX ‘mighty mice’ are sent into space

Over the course of 40 days on the International Space Station (ISS), researchers will determine the effect of microgravity on JAX’s Mighty Mice — genetically...