Life-science briefing: Friday, April 11, 2008

Life-science briefing: Friday, April 11, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Stent maker IDev Tech raises $25M (VentureWire)
Xytis gets $15M for brain-injury drugs (VentureWire)
Diagnostic maker Iris Biotech plans to go public, launch breast-cancer test (Edgar)
RiverVest Venture Partners raises $75M life-science fund (release)
Concentric Medical names Maria Sainz CEO (release)

[Note: I’m a little sad to announce that this will… Continue Reading

Social video startup uvLayer looks to be growing up fast

Social video startup uvLayer looks to be growing up fast

Social video startup Unknown Vector launched a browser-based version of its uvLayer application yesterday.

I covered the company back in February following the release of its uvLayer desktop-only app (built on Adobe AIR), and I was pretty impressed with it then. The application lets users create “stacks” of videos collected from YouTube… Continue Reading