Archive for June 2021

Vaccines based on mRNA have proved themselves against Covid-19. Now, Translate Bio is teaming up with Sanofi Pasteur to explore whether the technology could be applied to a vaccine against seasonal flu. Read More

The Charles Park office properties in Cambridge’s Kendall Square changed hands just six months ago for $468 million. Read More

In May this year, Affectiva Inc. CEO Rana el Kaliouby agreed to sell the Boston artificial-intelligence company she co-founded in 2009 to competitor Smart Eye for $73.5 million. The Business Journal’s Lucia Maffei reached out to el Kaliouby hours ahead of the release of the official closing announcement to talk about how the M&A process…

Dialysis device maker Quanta Dialysis Technologies Ltd. is gearing up to expand in Massachusetts after a $245 million round — the largest-ever private funding round for a dialysis device company, Quanta says. Read More

BBJ Editorial: The state should make permanent the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board, which has shown itself to be effective and flexible. But we’d like to see more representation from communities or groups that rely most on public transit. Read More

This star-studded fitness franchise has a new HQ in Austin and aspirations to bring more than 20,000 locations to fruition. It’ll need a lot of capital to expand that big, and much of it may come from Wall Street. Get the details in this story, plus our latest list of local public companies. Read More

ranked Massachusetts as the sixth-highest state in the nation for congested urban interstates. Read More

Working from home is starting to morph into something altogether different. As with so many things, I’m a hybrid of psyched and afraid. Read More

The state will raise the MassHealth reimbursement rate for scores of community health centers across the state, infusing millions of dollars more annually into practices that often care for the state’s poorest residents. Read More

Shares of UniQure NV, a Netherlands-based biotech with U.S. headquarters in Lexington, closed down on Tuesday after three very different announcements. Read More