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Geltor raises $91 million in Series B funding to engineer 100% animal- and GMO-free proteins

Nickie Louise Posted On July 27, 2020

Geltor, a San Francisco-based bio-design tech startup that makes designer proteins for consumers, with a focus on functionality and sustainability, today announced it has closed $91.3 million Series B financing to fuel the global expansion of its Ingredients-as-a-Service™ platform. The round […]

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Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine begins final-stage testing; vaccine could be ready for use by the end of 2020

Nickie Louise Posted On July 27, 2020

Biotech giant Moderna Therapeutics announced early Monday morning it had begun the final-stage or phase 3 trial testing to evaluate if an investigational vaccine can prevent symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adults. The vaccine, known as mRNA-1273, was with the National […]

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Dr. Fauci says he is “not particularly concerned” about the safety risk of Moderna coronavirus vaccine

Nickie Louise Posted On July 27, 2020

Historically, Americans are worried about the potential risks of coronavirsus vaccines. While people have many reasons to worry about the upcoming vaccines, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that he is “not particularly concerned” about the […]

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New York-based telehealth startup Ro raised a $200M Series C to become a patient’s first call for healthcare needs

Nickie Louise Posted On July 27, 2020

Ro, a New York-based telehealth startup is a healthcare that handles everything from online diagnosis to the delivery of medication, announced today it has raised a $200 million Series C led by General Catalyst, bringing total funding since launch to […]

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OpenSpace lands $15.9M Series B funding for its construction photo documentation and analytics platform

Nickie Louise Posted On July 27, 2020

OpenSpace, a San Francisco-based tech startup that offers photo documentation which is automatically pinned to plan location with AI, today announced it has raised $15.9M Series B funding round to meet the rapidly-growing demand for OpenSpace’s remote construction technology and ClearSight analytics […]

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London-based healthtech startup Transformative secures $1.7M seed funding to predict sudden cardiac arrest

Nickie Louise Posted On July 27, 2020

Every year, 292,000 adults and 7,000 children suffer cardiac arrest in US hospitals, with only 25% surviving to hospital discharge, according to a 2019 estimate by the American Heart Association. Globally, 6 million people die from sudden cardiac arrest annually. […]

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Facebook backs Nigerian mental health NGO She Writes Woman (SWW); selected to participate in 2020 Facebook Accelerator program

Nickie Louise Posted On July 27, 2020

The Facebook Accelerator Program is a three-month program aimed at addressing specific business challenges facing the news industry. Accelerator programs bring news organizations together to innovate; learn from one another; and collaboratively develop strategies to improve their business both on […]

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Over 600,000 people sign petition to investigate Bill Gates Foundation for “crimes against humanity and medical malpractice”

Nickie Louise Posted On July 27, 2020

More than 600,000 people have signed a petition on the White House’s website requesting that Bill Gates Foundation be investigated for “crimes against humanity and medical malpractice.” The petition, which was launched on April 10, has garnered six times the number […]

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‘The key to defeating COVID-19 already exists. We need to start using it,’ Yale Epidemic Professor says

Nickie Louise Posted On July 26, 2020

In an op-ed post in Newsweek magazine, Dr. Harvey A. Risch, MD, PhD, a professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, said the key to defeating COVID-19 already exists. Dr. Risch, who has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and […]

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Brazilian President Bolsonaro tests Negative for COVID-19 less than 3 weeks after treatment with hydroxychloroquine

Nickie Louise Posted On July 26, 2020

We have some updates and good news to share with you about the condition of Brazilian President Bolsonaro. On July 9, we wrote about President Bolsonaro after he was tested positive for COVID-19. He later posted a video of himself on […]

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Wearing masks for long periods could be detrimental to your health, Germany researchers found

Nickie Louise Posted On July 25, 2020

We’ve learned a lot about coronavirus since the virus first broke out from Wuhan, China in December 2019. Six months into the pandemic, there’s an agreement that a combination of social distancing, regular handwashing and wearing mask prevents or reduces […]

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Danny Boice, CEO and founder of Virginia-based tech startup Trustify, charged with fraud and money laundering

Nickie Louise Posted On July 25, 2020

What a shame that a tech startup company named Trustify would be fraudulent. Today, the United States Department of Justice announced that CEO and founder of Trustify, a tech startup company founded in 2015 and based in Arlington, Virginia, has been charged […]

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Vietnam has zero coronavirus deaths – Here’s how a country of 95 million managed to keep COVID-19 death toll at zero

Nickie Louise Posted On July 24, 2020

Vietnam is a country that shares porous land border with China. Vietnam defied the odds to become one of a handful of countries to have reported zero deaths from the coronavirus pandemic. Although Vietnam reported its first case of COVID-19 on January […]

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BUSTED: Dr. Fauci caught NOT wearing mask at a baseball stadium after weeks of lecturing us to wear a face mask in public

Nickie Louise Posted On July 24, 2020

MLB finally returned to the field on Thursday. And all eyes were on the defending World Champions – the Washington Nationals. Giving the current pandemic, it’s fitting to invite none other than Dr. Fauci to throw the first pitch. So, […]

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Triller hits 50 million monthly active users; surpassing TikTok when it sold to ByteDance for $1 billion

Nickie Louise Posted On July 24, 2020

Chinese video app TikTok is losing its popularity among teens and users in the United States after a series of bad news in June and July. Earlier this year, the ByteDance-owned short-video app became the third most popular among teens in […]

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion funds at $44 billion valuation

Nickie Louise Posted On July 24, 2020

2020 is a big year for Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. The company reached a significant achievement n May 30 after the company launched two NASA astronauts into space from American soil after nearly a decade. The following day, SpaceX becomes the […]

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Universal Pictures is negotiating to shoot first movie in space, starring Tom Cruise aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon

Nickie Louise Posted On July 24, 2020

Back in May, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a Twitter post the agency is working with Hollywood action movie actor Tom Cruise and Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX to film a movie at the International Space Station (ISS). In a […]

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Dave, a fintech startup and a banking app backed by Mark Cuban, now has 2 million people on waiting list

Nickie Louise Posted On July 23, 2020

The emergence of mobile app is changing the banking industry. The digital banking market is expected to reach $30 billion in 2023 from just $7.3 billion, according to data from AlliedMarketResearch firm. In October 2016, Goldman Sachs Bank USA started offering […]

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China successfully launches its first Mars probe 45 years after U.S. launch

Nickie Louise Posted On July 23, 2020

In a space race against the United States, China launched its first Mars landing mission Tianwen-1, the heaviest payload ever to be sent to Mars, on Long March-5 carrier rocket from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan Province on Thursday. […]

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Countries using hydroxychloroquine have low coronavirus fatality rate compared to countries that don’t, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons says

Nickie Louise Posted On July 23, 2020

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a non-partisan and non-profit professional association of physicians founded in 1944. According to the information on its website, AAPS has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to […]

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