(98point6 Photo) Sam’s Club members in three states will soon be able to see a physician right from their phones at any hour of the day for just $1 per session. The perk is thanks to a pilot in Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina that Walmart-owned Sam’s Club is rolling out with Seattle-based telemedicine startup […]
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(Split Bio Photo) University of Washington spinout Split Bio raised $560,000 in bridge financing to fund the manufacturing of kits that allow scientists to perform high throughput single-cell RNA sequencing. The new money brings Split’s total amount raised to $2 million, following a $1.2 million round last year and a $225,000 award from the National
Dr. Gary Gilliland at the 2018 GeekWire Awards, where he was honored as “Geek of the Year.” (GeekWire Photo) Gary Gilliland, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, announced plans to step down from his post next year. Gilliland said he would stay in the role until the center is able to
Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle developed a way to test for microbiome diversity from a blood sample. (Artist rendering courtesy of ISB) If you want to know what’s going on in your gut microbiome, the community of bacteria in our intestines that are tied to overall health, there are plenty of
Chinook Therapeutics CEO Eric Dobmeier. (Chinook Photo) Chinook Therapeutics, a Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company creating targeted therapies for kidney diseases, raised $65 million in a Series A financing round led by Versant Ventures with Apple Tree Partners and Samsara BioCapital. The company is creating precision medicines for rare and severe kidney disorders. Chinook said it
