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- 16 Jun 2020
- News
Why Do People Avoid Facts That Could Help Them?
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
first genetic tests focused on ancestry were coming on the market. Though they were expensive and of limited utility, Cusenza saw the science rapidly improving, and he recognized opportunity not just in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
tested positive for strep throat, were prescribed the antibiotic amoxicillin, and gradually started to improve. “And then,” Rodakis says, “my life changed.” His son had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) earlier that year,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
cutting-edge technologies to also build the most advanced security capabilities for biology.” The coronavirus presented a “crucible moment,” he acknowledges. Concentric launched in 2020 with a COVID-19 testing service for schools and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
boutique-filled neighborhood and ending in another. Over at Niedlov’s Breadworks, there are iced lattes and avocado toast—the litmus test for millennial happiness. And humming through it all is a citywide 10-gigabit network, courtesy of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Moderna could create a vaccine for clinical testing in just 60 days. That was three times faster than any vaccine candidate had ever been produced. Fauci didn't believe him. An idea emerged to test Bancel’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni Take Cold Calls in New York City
focused on 23andMe, whose sale of genetic testing kits directly to consumers was challenged by the Food & Drug Administration. Quelch, who coauthored the case, is also on the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan... View Details
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
on his company’s board. Good Start, which closed an $18 million Series A round of fundraising in September, will use advanced DNA sequencing technology for a pre-pregnancy test to more accurately screen for a range of potential View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
a genetic enzyme deficiency that leads to rapid muscle deterioration and death from respiratory failure, usually before age five. Although fewer than one thousand children worldwide suffer from any form of Pompe's disease, the Crowleys'... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
what my priorities are. I actually didn't know what that mission-driven work would be at the time. But I came across a company whose mission it was to democratize access to genetic testing for hereditary... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
create informed, online test prep through Khan Academy. Free, accessible coaching, Khan reasons, will help “level the playing field”—giving every student, everywhere access to elite-level SAT coaching. J.R. Simplot’s White Russet is... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
genes to the inner ear with unprecedented efficiency.” The five-year-old company will likely apply for clinical testing permission for its lead therapy in the first half of 2022—a key hurdle in the notoriously lengthy process of advancing... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
University of Cincinnati every year for treatment? Why does he seem to struggle to walk? Horgan eventually came to understand that his brother suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal, childhood genetic disease that impacts about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
the single-celled organisms to bulk up on fat like bears preparing for winter. Alas, just like bears, the microscopic butterballs eventually go into hibernation. And once that happens, they stop growing, negating the gains made in oil production. SGI solved that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney dialysis patients) and Neupogen (which restores white blood cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. As the ability to analyze a patient's View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have cancer. Doctors ran View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing a lot of View Details