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BioBoom

What booming biotech means for Greater Boston and beyond

People cross at the intersection of Ames and Main streets. Kendall Square is home to dozens of biotech companies. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
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In The Heart Of Biotech, Leaders Explain The Boston Area’s 'BioBoom'

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This map screenshot shows the cluster of biotech companies around Kendall Square in Cambridge.

The Biotech Boom: By The Numbers

CommonHealth

Jun 4, 2018
Johannes Fruehauf is co-founder and president of LabCentral, a shared laboratory space. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Tribes Of Kendall Square: How To Parse Who's Who In Hotbed Of Biotech

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CommonHealth

08:06Jun 6, 2018
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Primer: How To Speak Basic Biotech, From 'Transformative' To 'Valley Of Death'

CommonHealth

Jun 4, 2018
 

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Affording Miracles: As Biotech Victories In Gene Therapy Excite, Costs Spur Quest For New Ways To Pay

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CommonHealth

08:57Jun 7, 2018
The Vertex headquarters in the Seaport District of Boston (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Boston's Vertex Has Taken A Roller Coaster Ride To Profitability

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CommonHealth

10:47Jun 5, 2018
Robert Langer, who's been called the “Edison of Medicine," is an institute professor at MIT who has founded 40 companies in nearly as many years. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Biotech Startups: Dreams, Risk, Failure And — Sometimes — Success

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CommonHealth

07:50Jun 5, 2018
Contruction is rampant all over Kendall Square. The 19-story, 453,768-square-foot office tower at 145 Broadway will be the new home of Akamai Technologies. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Next Chapter For Biotech? Many Say 'Convergence' With Data Science

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CommonHealth

06:10Jun 8, 2018

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A platelet (yellow) is flanked by a red blood cell (left) and a white blood cell (right) in this electron microscope view. (WikiMedia Commons)

Next Era For Biotech: Designer Cells To Attack Diseases

A biotech CEO argues that the biggest news in the sector is not the creation of cures for specific diseases but rather of whole new types of treatments.

CommonHealth

Jun 8, 2018
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Could The 'BioBoom' Go Bust? How One MIT Professor Sees It

The hope and promise of lifesaving medical treatments fuel biotech investor exuberance to the tune of billions of dollars per year in Massachusetts. MIT's Andrew Lo breaks down how a...

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CommonHealth

06:55Jun 8, 2018
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Genetic Diseases Steal Too Many Kids' Futures. It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

The biotech industry needs to invest more in developing therapies for childhood diseases, ideally ones that can be given before symptoms arise, writes Geoff McDonough.

Cognoscenti

Jun 8, 2018
Edie Stringfellow, director of diversity and inclusion at the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, and Paula Soteropoulos, CEO of Akcea Therapeutics. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Number Of Women Leaders At Biotech Companies Lags — But Is Improving

Two leaders in biotech -- both women -- discuss how women in management benefit biotech companies, and what's being done to bring more women into executive office suites and board...

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CommonHealth

09:30Jun 7, 2018
Noubar Afeyan is one of biotech's most prolific investors. (Courtesy Flagship Pioneering)

One Of Biotech's Biggest Investors Says The Industry Must Be 'Unreasonable'

Noubar Afeyan is one of biotech's most prolific investors.

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CommonHealth

06:56Jun 7, 2018
The Cambridge Innovation Center at 1 Broadway is home to 25 biotech companies, according to one tally. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

How Is The BioBoom Changing The Community — And Culture — Of Cambridge?

We speak with Cambridge residents about how the biotech explosion is affecting the city, from swelling rents to -- arguably -- the further corporatization of Harvard Square.

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Radio Boston

28:32Jun 6, 2018

This Biotech Unicorn Hopes To Revolutionize Drug Making, But It Has Its Skeptics

Investors think Moderna Therapeutics holds a lot of promise -- a new technology that could revolutionize thousands of medicines.

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CommonHealth

05:26Jun 6, 2018
Kendall Square is the epicenter of the Massachusetts biotechnology industry. But during the coronavirus outbreak, the neighborhood is almost empty and "eerie" according to MassBio CEO Bob Coughlin. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Women And People Of Color Are Underrepresented In Mass. BioTech. That Has To Change

It's time for the life sciences industry to expand access and opportunity to more women, people of color and people at all socioeconomic levels, writes David Lucchino, the chairman of...

Cognoscenti

Jun 6, 2018
A view of Kendall Square back before it was a hub of the biotech sector. (Courtesy Cambridge Redevelopment Authority)

How Kendall Square Became The Epicenter Of The Biotech World

We look at the history of the biotech industry in Boston.

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Radio Boston

18:30Jun 5, 2018
Travis McCready will be the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center's second ever CEO. (State House News Service)

Mass. Life Sciences Center Anticipates $500 Million State Investment

The state Legislature is expected to pass a measure that would invest another $500 million in life science over the next five years.

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Radio Boston

16:30Jun 4, 2018

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