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Theranos Foundations: Why the Elizabeth Holmes Fraud Still Matters
Oliver StrnadA new documentary reopens the case, and the underlying lesson about verification in diagnostics has not aged a day.
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Explore Tech News coverage from Dark Biotechnology: The technology of biology as business: funding, hiring, platforms and market moves.
The technology of biology as business.
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How Biotech Startups Get Funded: Seed, Series A and the Valley of Death
Oliver StrnadBiotech financing runs on staged proof: seed capital buys discovery data, Series A buys a path to the clinic, and the gap between them kills more companies than any failed trial.
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What Recent Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnostics Launches Mean for Decentralized Testing
Oliver StrnadMolecular testing is moving to the point of care. Roche said on December 2, 2025 that its cobas liat Bordetella test received FDA 510(k) clearance and a CLIA waiver, with results in about 15 minutes,…
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All of Us Release Makes the Genomics Platform the Largest Integrated Health Database
Oliver StrnadNIH's All of Us Research Program became the world's largest integrated genomic and electronic health record database with its June 30, 2026 release, which per the agency's announcement makes data from…
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Where Lab Automation Actually Stands in Biotech Right Now
Oliver StrnadLab automation in biotech has moved from liquid-handling convenience to process control: a nonlinear model predictive control system developed by Sartorius researchers increased continuous CHO…
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PacBio Raises Vega HiFi Output 50 Percent With SPRQ-Nx Chemistry
Oliver StrnadPacBio (NASDAQ: PACB) announced on August 5, 2026 that SPRQ-Nx chemistry will raise per-run HiFi output on its Vega benchtop sequencer from 60 Gb to 90 Gb, per the company's press release. The U.S.…