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A new company backed by OVP Venture Partners is coming out of stealth mode, promising to map a person’s entire genetic blueprint for $5,000.
The company, Complete Genomics Inc., is based in Silicon Valley, and is the latest entrant into the hot field of personal genetic analysis.
The company will begin mapping entire human genomes starting in [...]

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The demise of law firm Heller Ehrman late last month created a hole in the Seattle legal market, one that Cooley Godward Kronish hopes to partly fill.
The Palo Alto, Calif., law firm announced today that it is hiring 15 partners from Heller Ehrman’s Venture Law Group practice, including four partners in Seattle who specialized in [...]

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Seinfeld/Gates redux: Microsoft’s ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates were widely panned, but in at least one respect, they’re outperforming the company’s “I’m a PC” campaign. The Seinfeld/Gates ads have racked up online views at a much higher rate than the “I’m a PC” ads have, according to online video-tracking company Visual Measures Corp. [...]

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Stopped by the annual open house at Intel Research Seattle yesterday afternoon and saw lots of interesting projects. Here are a couple videos I took while making the rounds. In the first, below, Louis LeGrand of Intel Research shows a robotic arm that uses a camera and an electric field to sense an object before [...]

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