Luca Mars did the math. Three years ago, the 19-year-old accounting student, who lives in the small Brazilian city of Várzea Alegre, 2,200 miles northeast of Rio, took a look at his mobile phone bill and knew that he couldn’t …
Mass Innovation opens new shared labs in Kendall Square
Mass Innovation Labs has taken the wraps off a brand new shared lab space in Cambridge. It’s the second shared biotech space in the area, joining Tech Square’s LabCentral, which opened in the summer last year.
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Want a tech job? Three things executives want to see
The Boston area is home to some of the world’s best universities, and is rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with in global tech. But what should be a perfect match — between highly qualified students and the growing …
Startups build apps, seeking to capture fragile ideas
A new wave of entrepreneurs are trying to solve an ancient problem: ever since we began to write on papyrus (3000 BC) and whiteboards (mid-1900s), we’ve encountered the problem of lost ideas. Scraps of paper go astray, brilliant diagrams get …
With new funding, Orig3n hopes to hone in on best treatments for you
Boston startup Orig3n has been showing up at marathons and triathlons with an unusual request for participants: How about parting with a vial of blood? The company is trying to build a giant library of iPS cells — that’s induced …