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Helix Fund Invests $50,000 In AeroValve

St. Louis energy technology startup AeroValve announced that it has secured $50,000 in funding from the Helix Fund, a co-investment group providing $1.5 million to local bioscience companies.

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Kypha Raises $1.5M To Bring Compact Health Diagnosis Tech To Market

St. Louis-based medtech company Kypha has raised nearly $2.5 million over the past year to bring its premier technology, the CompAct test, to the market in 2013.

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Log Into Your Favorite Apps With Your Eyes Thanks To Kansas City Startup EyeVerify

Life imitates art now thanks to a new technology that integrates with consumer-facing apps to allow users to sign in with an eye scan.

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DARPA: Look To Muscle, Sinew, Viscera For Robot Innovation

This week, DARPA challenged researchers to find new ways to bridge the gap between power-thirsty man-made robots and energy-efficient biological systems.

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Is That Avocado Ripe? Scan It With Your Smartphone

According to German researchers, savvy grocery shoppers will use their smartphones at the supermarket not to check pricing or nutritional information but to scan the interior of actual fruits, vegetables, and meats to detect freshness and chemical balance.

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Google Ventures Pushes Biotech With Adimab

Google is known for an array of products that catalog and curate online content. But the company’s investment arm, Google Ventures, has for several years been directing funds to Adimab,.

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Swipe Germs Away with SwipeSense

*This article is fourth in a series featuring the initial Healthbox Accelerator participants. THE IDEA: SwipeSense is a personal, portable hand sanitizer dispenser healthcare professionals can carry on themselves to.

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Biopixels Give A Whole New Meaning To Dead Pixels

Who knew that bacteria could be so beautiful? Well, apparently researchers at University of California San Diego. The team used millions of glowing bacteria cells to create a pretty awesome,.

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Healthbox Accelerator Announces First Round Participants

Chicago-based Healthbox Accelerator has announced the first participants who will begin the program on January 9, 2012.

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Bionic Contacts: Terminator-Like Awesomeness Ahead

Seattle, Washington –  Researchers at the University of Washington are revolutionizing the contact lens and turning it into something any T-800 would love: Bionic Contacts. The project is being lead by.

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