By Drake Bennett January 27, 2023 at 7:00 AM EST A fixation with ChatGPT emerged just as educators were grappling with more urgent questions. But first… Decent grades When professors at the University of Minnesota Law School asked ChatGPT to take several of their exams, the chatbot earned on average a C+. ChatGPT is apparently better-suited to business school, earning a […]
By Greg Ryan – Senior Reporter, Boston Business Journal Jan 23, 2023 Trammell Crow Co. has put forward one of the largest development proposals in Boston in the past year: Three new life sciences buildings, as well as 200 residential units — all of them income-restricted — in Brighton. The Dallas-based CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE: CBRE) subsidiary and […]
By Rowan Walrath – Life Sciences Reporter, Boston Business Journal Jan 23, 2023 Moderna Inc. is hiring another 2,000 employees this year, a move that would massively grow its headcount — and most of them will be in Massachusetts. The Cambridge-based company (Nasdaq: MRNA) currently employs around 4,000 people globally, CEO Stephane Bancel told investors at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare […]
BOSTON–Conversions of outdated office buildings to other uses such as multifamily complexes, life sciences labs and hotels have garnered widespread attention as the office market adapts to hybrid work. Still, conversion projects in the works represent only a small fraction of the overall market, according to a new report from CBRE. CBRE’s analysis found 218 […]
Most of them develop drugs. One of them imports and sells fossil fuels. Another one sells sand. The 20 Massachusetts-based companies with the largest stock gains over the course of 2022 (as of Friday, Dec. 16) span a range of industries. But, as is the case in most years, the majority are small biotech companies […]
By Hannah Green – Inno Reporter December 07, 2022, 09:54am EST Updated 12/07/2022 2:07 pm For self-described “space nerds” like Mari Anne Snow and Yupeng Chen, being approached by NASA to fund an in-space manufacturing project of their company’s technology was a thrilling moment. “You can imagine, every day we pinch ourselves and go, is this really happening?” Snow said. […]
After about a decade in the role, Emily Reichert has left her role at the helm of one of the largest climate-tech startup incubators in North America. Reichert confirmed on Thursday she stepped down as CEO of Somerville-based Greentown Labs. Her last day was Dec. 5. Greentown Labs published the news on its website Monday, but […]
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy for hemophilia B on Tuesday, it was a win not only for CSL Behring, which owns the rights to the drug, but for Lexington’s UniQure NV. UniQure (Nasdaq: QURE) originally developed the drug, now called Hemgenix, and licensed it to CSL back in 2021. […]
Inflation and fast-rising interest rates are taking their toll on commercial real estate transactions in Greater Boston. Real estate investors bought $4.6 billion in commercial properties in the Boston metro area in the third quarter, a 27% decline from the same three-month period in 2021, according to new data from MSCI Real Assets. It’s only […]
MetLife Investment Management has completed its $103 million purchase of Burlington BioCenter, a 109,085-square-foot life science research and pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Burlington, Mass. Public records show MetLife financed the acquisition with a $54.4 million loan from Northwestern Mutual. Newmark represented the seller, a joint venture between The Gutierrez Company and GEM Realty Capital, and procured the buyer. The partnership had […]
