Archive for March 2021
5 things to know, including a new indoor cycling studio in Orangevale
Here’s what you need to know today.
Jennifer Doudna’s Scribe Therapeutics lands a $100M Series B to advance CRISPR technology
The Alameda-based company, which boasts a new way of using CRISPR technology, plans to rapidly expand the company in the hopes of creating new treatments for a host of unmet diseases.
Public affairs firm Core Strategic adds LA office
Sacramento-based public affairs firm Core Strategic Group has expanded its influence, opening an office in Los Angeles.
CEO of California Primary Care Association to step down
Carmela Castellano-Garcia has led CPCA for the last 24 years.
Slew of companies in S.F. seek to lower property values totaling hundreds of millions
Google, Uber and an LLC connected to the Westin St. Francis Hotel are among those that filed to reduce their property values — and their tax bills.
Wells Fargo plans to start bringing employees back to the office in September
“We believe most of us benefit by being physically together,” the company told employees.
Is Twitter looking for office space in Oakland?
The move comes even as the social media giant last year tried to sublease some space in San Francisco.
What happens to the brain during a hallucinogenic trip? A new UCSF initiative aims to find out.
The UCSF center that is best known for creating video games to improve cognition is now getting into the trippy business of psychedelics.
Woodland project includes hotel, fast-food restaurant
Empty land next to an offramp from Interstate 5 in Woodland is being planned with multiple components aimed at travelers.
FTC sues to block Illumina’s $7.1B purchase of Menlo Park-based Grail
The agency alleges that the combination would weaken innovation in the market for tests that can detect multiple kinds of cancers early in their development.