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  • SA biotech rolling out wearable epileptic seizure alert device

    Brain Sentinel Consumer Systems LLC, a San Antonio-based bioscience company, is rolling out a product designed to detect potential deadly epileptic seizures more quickly. The company will start taking orders in March for the SeizureLink Alerting System, a wearable, nonprescription device, which…

  • Evestra Snags DoD Grant For Experimental Breast Cancer Drug Research

    San Antonio—A small Texas biotech that develops women's health products, including a generic birth control ring, has received a $960,000 grant from the Department of Defense to continue early stage work on experimental treatments for triple-negative breast cancer. Evestra, which is located just…

  • Promising treatment for Ebola to be tested at Texas Biomed

    Now, scientists at Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio have been awarded a $2 million dollar contract by the makers of ZMapp, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc., to further test this promising new therapeutic. Ebola is a filovirus that causes severe hemorrhagic fever and is fatal in…

  • Meet the wildly successful portfolio manager whose history degree is his secret weapon for ...

    "Most things that are new, with the exception of healthcare and biotech, start as technology and then move over into their proper classification," said Moberg. "We believe that we run a very diversified portfolio, but don't believe yet that the index providers have fully caught up to how…

  • A startup that wants to better understand the relationship our gut has to our brain just raised $66 ...

    Kallyope, a biotech startup working to map out the gut-brain axis, has raised $66 million. The series B round will help the company get some of its programs nearer to human clinical trials and continue research on the relationship between the gut and its microbes and the brain. The hope is that…