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Adaptive Biotechnologies lays off about 100 people, 12% of headcount, to ‘streamline our workforce’

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Chad Robins, left, is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, which he co-founded with his brother, Harlan Robins, right, the company’s chief scientific officer. Adaptive Biotechnologies Photo). Adaptive Biotechnologies is laying off 12% of its workforce, or about 100 employees, GeekWire has learned. “We

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Tech Moves: Accolade’s new board member; Adaptive Biotechnologies names a COO; and more

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Longtime F5 Networks board members Gary Ames and Deborah Bevier will be retiring from the board of directors effective March 11, when the company hosts its annual meeting. Adaptive Biotechnologies). Adaptive Biotechnologies has promoted one exec, while another is departing next month. Bevier joined the F5 board in 2006.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech co-founders join life sciences SPAC; new edtech execs; and more

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Chad Robins, left, is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, which he co-founded with his brother, Harlan Robins, right, a theoretical physicist turned computational biologist who is the company’s chief scientific officer. Adaptive Biotechnologies Photo).

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

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Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies announced Nitin Sood as its first-ever chief commercial officer. Everson most recently was VP of Facebook’s global marketing solutions which works with the social networks top agencies and advertisers. Nitin Sood. Adaptive Biotech Photo). Sood will report to Adaptive Biotech CEO Chad Robins.

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Seattle investment bank that helps buy and sell companies forms new SPAC to target ‘industry 4.0’

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“We believe the multiple sourcing channels and deep relationship network of our management team and from our affiliation with Cascadia Capital, combined with our capital markets and transaction experience, provide us with a competitive advantage,” the firm wrote. In 2019, just 59 SPACs completed offerings.

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Univ. of Washington deep learning researchers ‘hallucinate’ protein designs from scratch

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The researchers even embraced the term “hallucination” for the new structures, titling their study, “De novo protein design by deep network hallucination.”. “At When they ran these chains into their prediction network, they did not look like much of anything, failing to fold up into defined structures.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 7, 2021

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Jeff Bezos-backed startup Nautilus Biotechnology set to go public via SPAC at $900M valuation. Nautilus Biotechnology, a Seattle-based biotech startup led by Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel, is the latest company to go public using a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. Most popular stories on GeekWire. … Read More.