She took a DNA test from 23andMe, a biotech company that uses saliva samples to determine ancestry and identify distant and close relatives, health risks and physical traits. Ballard's results listed seven half-siblings. She and two others assembled a family tree and realized their mothers had…
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San Antonio health care and bioscience organizations have embraced local collaboration in a way that has set the city apart from other markets. But if the trend in CPRIT funding is an indication, the Alamo City may need to explore a wider geographic approach to cooperative pursuits and…
- 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…