EARLY IN THE evening on March 19, the prominent Silicon Valley investor and serial entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan kicked off a tweet storm with a techno-libertarian call to arms: “To all biotech & tech people: The Manhattan Project for the virus is going to end up being the Palo Alto Project. It’s on us. The state doesn’t have tech […]

During a pandemic, it’s natural that people would worry about their health, their families, or the possibility of infecting others. But sometimes, those worries can exacerbate existing mental health conditions. With obsessive-compulsive disorder, fears continue to loop over and over again, said Stephen Smith, founder of OCD therapy platform NOCD. Smith, who was diagnosed with […]

The parent company of a startup planning to set up shop in the Philadelphia region has entered into a deal with the Mayo Clinic to advance a potential COVID-19 treatment. Under the terms of the agreement, a clinical trial of an antiviral compound known as Vicromax — under development by a new company called ViralClear Pharmaceuticals — […]