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financial windpipe for growing companies ? the ability to raise money through stock offerings ? is increasingly constricted by the partial government shutdown, industry experts say. Source: Public stock offerings hit by partial government shutdown […]

San Diego-based Technology startup BlueNalu recently announced its new, nine-member advisory board, which includes Pierre-Yves Cousteau?a global environmental consultant and president of Cousteau Divers, an organization dedicated to continue the goals of his late father, […]

From day 1 Gos?samer has al?ways been a biotech in a hurry. And they?re not about to let a lit?tle thing like a gov?ern?ment shut?down stymy their plans for an IPO. Source: Shutdown thrusts Gossamer […]

While the high cost of living in San Francisco has famously grabbed headlines, the costs of simply meeting there, even for a few days, are becoming untenable for some. Source: Attendees fed up with venue, […]

Roswell Biotechnologies, a life-science upstart in San Diego, has secured $32 million from investors to develop an unusual new way to sequence DNA for cheap ? a feat they hope will dramatically bring down the […]

UC San Diego researchers say they?ve discovered a major reason why skin ages, and how skin aging impairs resistance to infections. And they?ve found a way to fix it, at least in mice. In aging, skin cells called fibroblasts lose their ability to ma… […]

Gossamer Bio, headed by former Receptos executives, made its public debut in January with $100 million in financing. Seven months later, it tacked on another $230 million. Now, the San Diego-based startup is looking to Wall Street for additional funds…. […]

Some people appear to be considerably younger or older than their chronological age. Genetic signatures that may help explain this have been discovered by scientists at the Salk Institute. The age-associated genetic patterns were found by analyzing… […]

Twelve patients contracted serious infections after being given products supposedly containing stem cells from a San Diego company, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. The company, Genetech, is unrelated to Genentech, the large bio… […]

San Diego?s life sciences companies didn?t tap their brakes much as December chugged along. This week?for many, the last full work week before a holiday break?has been peppered with financings and deals news. So while it might be nearly time to board y… […]

Hav?ing es?tab?lished Ionis $IONS as a well?spring of Big Pharma in?no?va?tion, founder and chief?Stan?ley Crooke is tran?si?tion?ing to ex?ec?u?tive chair?man of the an?ti?sense com?pany?s board come 2020, when cur?rent COO?Brett Monia will take over the […]

New biopharma company Aristea Therapeutics has raised $15 million from Novo Holdings, the Danish investment company, and secured global rights to an investigational AstraZeneca drug that?s ready for Phase 2 study. The San Diego, CA, company made its pu… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fasterscience?src=hash" target="_blank"gt;#fastersciencelt;/agt;–Scientist.com, the world’s leading marketplace for outsourced scientific research, was recognized a… […]

A lawsuit by Human Longevity against the J. Craig Venter Institute alleging theft of trade secrets has been dismissed. The dismissal order was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California by Judge William Q. Hayes…. […]

RiverVest Venture Partners, a St. Louis, MO-based venture capital firm with additional offices in San Diego, CA, and Cleveland, OH, has raised $184.4 million for its fourth fund dedicated to investing in healthcare companies. Since its launch, RiverVes… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Gossamer Bio, Inc., a privately held, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, acquiring, developing and commercializing therapeutics in the disease areas of immunology, inflammation and oncology, tod… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ARS Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company dedicated to empowering at-risk patients and caregivers to better protect themselves from severe allergic reactions potentially leading to anaphylaxis, has raised $20 milli… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Quidel Corporation (NASDAQ: QDEL) (?Quidel?), a provider of rapid diagnostic testing solutions, cellular-based virology assays and molecular diagnostic systems, announced today that it has received CE Mark to market Quidel?s… […]

Cisco has agreed to pay $660 million for Luxtera, a Caltech spinout that makes optical chips for data centers. The semiconductor company, founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, CA, a San Diego suburb. Cisco, the San Jose, CA-based tech giant (NASDAQ: C… […]

The pang of loneliness is far more prevalent than even the gloomiest of previous estimates, according to a new study from UC San Diego researchers. Three-fourths of Americans experience moderate to high levels of loneliness, said the study, publish… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cox?src=hash" target="_blank"gt;#Coxlt;/agt;–SCALE San Diego is partnering with US Ignite & the City of San Diego, with sponsorship from Cox Communications, to … […]

The science never stops at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), and 2018 was no different.?

From an Alzheimer?s breakthrough to advancing promising medicines for pancreatic cancer and autoimmune disorders, our hardworking scientis… […]