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☆ Biotech startup Seed Health is betting its profits on AI-powered medical science
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Natalie Rose Goldberg | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

On Thursday, Seed Health launched CODA, a computational biology platform funded by its consumer business profitability. Seed Health has been in the business of microbiome scientific breakthroughs since its founding in 2015, but its biggest success to-date may have been becoming profitable as a bioscience startup. Katz's co-founder and co-CEO at Seed Health, Raja Dhir, said CODA and the accompanying data set will help to standardize microbiome science methods, which has long been an issue in the field. CODA's first applications are in metabolic health, brain health, longevity, and menopause, research areas chosen because they have already been identified as areas of human health where early CODA data displayed the strongest evidence. Seed Health has been working on several efforts around pioneering microbiome science for human and planetary health, and many in the field believe the approach is destined to have wider applications.

Persons: Katz, Ara Katz, Eran Segal, Eric Topol, transcriptome, Katz's, Raja Dhir, Dhir, Arpana Gupta, Goodman, There's, Segal, Joseph Petrosino, Petrosino Organizations: Seed, Seed Health, CNBC, Weizmann Institute of Science, Scripps Research Institute, UCLA, Luskin Microbiome, Baylor College of Medicine, Center, Metagenomics, Microbiome Research

☆ Tullow in $400 million debt deal, Ghana oil marketing pact with Glencore
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 13 (Reuters) - Tullow Oil (TLW.L) said on Monday it signed a $400 million five-year debt deal with Glencore (GLEN.L) to help manage its senior notes maturing through 2026 and will see the trading house take over marketing the crude from its flagship Ghana oilfields. The facility "significantly de-risks" Tullow's ability to refinance its 2026 notes, Peel Hunt analysts wrote in a note. Tullow's shares were up 3.6% at 31.5 pence in early trade. The company also signed an oil marketing and offtake contract with Glencore for Tullow's crude oil entitlements in Ghana and Gabon. Tullow reiterated its free cashflow guidance of $800 million between this year and 2025.

Persons: Arnd, Rahul Dhir, Peel, Tullow, Radhika Anilkumar, Shadia Nasralla, Savio D'Souza, Jason Neely Organizations: REUTERS, Glencore Energy UK Ltd, Peel Hunt, Glencore, Thomson Locations: Baar, Switzerland, Ghana, Gabon, Bengaluru, London

☆ Indian police retain carrier pigeons as backstop against disasters
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Sunil Kataria | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Dating from the days of British colonial rule when police stations used the birds to communicate with each other, the state's carrier pigeon service employs more than 100 Belgian Homer pigeons. The pigeons usually carry messages written on lightweight onion paper, inserted into a capsule and then tied to a leg. As they get older, the pigeons are taken some distance away to be freed and fly back to the shelter by instinct. Carrier pigeons took news of the conquest of Gaul to Rome, brought to England the news of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, and were widely used to carry messages during the two world wars. "Even in the unlikely event that every mode of communication breaks down tomorrow, the pigeons will never fail," he said.

Persons: Sunil Kataria, Belgian Homer, Satish Kumar Gajbhiye, Parshuram Nanda, Nanda, Gajbhiye, Anil Dhir, Sakshi Dayal, Clarence Fernandez Organizations: REUTERS, Police, Waterloo, Independence, Thomson Locations: Belgian, Cuttack, Odisha, India, Sunil Kataria CUTTACK, Gaul, Rome, England

☆ A 29-year-old entrepreneur shares 4 top tips to deal with the tough questions she faced as a young, female founder
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-15 | by ( Sakshi Udavant | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Investors asked Prianka Dhir, 29, questions she didn't think a male founder would be asked. She shares the types of questions she faced and gives four tips for dealing with them. Dhir shared her four tips to help other female founders who don't want to alienate prospective investors navigate the types of questions she faced. Be ready for questions that will feel unfairPractice, repeat, and refine the answers to difficult questions investors can ask before you enter the room, Dhir said. Read more: Meet 22 women who launched and led startups to an IPO, an accomplishment few female founders have ever reached

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