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A chicken egg at Neion Bio, a biotech start-up, receiving a microinjection. The company aims to to turn chicken eggs into ...

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Shreyas Sen is the Founder and CTO of Quasistatics, Inc. (dba Ixana), which develops Wi-R, a wireless body-area communication technology. He owns shares in the company. How do headphones, toys, ...