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Thin metal films loaded with immune cells show promise as cancer therapy

Navigating Cancer lands 12M inks McKesson partnership to help doctors engage with patients

Amazon and Microsoft restrict employee travel to China as tech giants react to spread of coronavirus

A protein found in scorpion venom just might help take the sting out of arthritis

Founded last year Mozart Therapeutics lands 55M to develop therapies for celiac and other diseases

UKs National Health Service taps Amazons Alexa to field common medical questions

TwinStrand raises 16M from Madrona and others for nextgen DNA sequencing promising early cancer detection and other breakthroughs

Adaptive Biotechnologies stock soars 90 after ringing Nasdaq opening bell following 300M IPO

Immunotherapy startup Umoja lands 210M less than a year after raising 53M

Biomatics raises 300M to invest in health startups adds Gates Foundation global health director

Seattle biotech startup AltPep raises 231M to tackle Alzheimers and related diseases

Hightech healthcare: Behindthescenes inside Kaiser Permanentes automated lab and pharmacy

Behavioral science startup 2Morrow raises 15M to grow digital therapeutic platform

Cell therapies are giving Seattle an edge in biotech driving three acquisitions in under a month

Heres why Seattle is the countrys top emerging life sciences market

Amazon fuels Harvard hospitals machine learning research program

Microsoftbacked universal blood test could start diagnosing disease within a small number of years

How virtual reality is helping scientists make new discoveries about our health

Alpine Immune Sciences stock rises after biotech firm lands 60M from AbbVie for lupus drug

The search for a COVID19 cure: Amgen and Adaptive Biotech partner in quest for new drug

Fujifilm SonoSite and AI2 team up to add artificial intelligence to ultrasound imaging

Providence Ventures led by exAmazon exec raises second 150M fund for early stage investments

Amazon unveils new service to mine and decode medical records using artificial intelligence

F5 Tower in Seattle closes for cleaning after employee had contact with coronavirus patient

Bill Gatesbacked AI competition offers 1M to accelerate Alzheimers research

Wellfunded stealthy biotech startup Nautilus hires former Smartsheet Isilon GenapSys execs

Chinook Therapeutics to merge with Aduro Biotech as it pushes forward with kidney disease therapies

Seattle startup HDT Bio raises 3M to support development of COVID19 vaccine

Report: Amazon and Gates Foundation aim to team up with scientists on home test kits for coronavirus

Juno Therapeutics agrees to pay 24M to stockholders in suit over disclosure of patient deaths

Accelerator Corp announces new leadership and renames to Accelerator Life Science Partners

Seattle biotech firm Shape Therapeutics inks gene therapy deal with Roche worth up to 3B

Impel Neuropharma raises 80M in Washington states first IPO of 2021

How Pfizers 43B acquisition of Seagen may impact Seattle and broader biotech market

2Morrow launches pain management app as tech industry addresses opioid crisis

As COVID soars Wash launches app using Google Apple technology to notify people of exposures

New UW center to match biomedical discoveries with resources to help bring products to market

Sentinel Healthcare extends its COVID19 tracking system to retirement communities

Cardiac Insight raises 8M as sales of its wearable heartbeat sensor spike 100

Amazon buys another healthcare startup to boost primary care service for its employees

Illumina will pay 8B to acquire Grail the Bill Gates and Jeff Bezosbacked cancer detection company

Seattlearea startup Cardiac Dimensions raises 175M for heartvalve repair device

Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership aiming to reshape healthcare

Ventec Life Systems raises 20M for multifunction ventilator

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative hands out 15 million to help scientists map every cell in the human body

Litesprite maker of games that treat mental health wins inaugural TRAILS healthcare competition

Study shows how mobile games can help treat depression and anxiety symptoms

BristolMyers Squibbs 74B acquisition of Juno parent Celgene puts Seattle biotech world on alert

AI2 and Microsoft team up with other tech leaders to use AI in the war on coronavirus

Eye care giant Alcon acquires LumiThera a Seattlearea startup behind device that treats vision loss