Sunday, February 28, 2016

Internship at Medronic

World's Largest Standalone Medical Device Company

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Medtronic is the largest medical device company in the world. The company has its US headquarters in Minnesota with several locations in California.  If you want to work on cutting edge research and want to be a force of change in the treatment of disease, then I highly recommend you to consider a career at Medtronic.  Medtronic offers internships and full time positions and if you would like to apply for an internship click here.  If you would like to learn about the technologies that Medtronic is currently producing, please continue reading.


Gilead Sciences

Advancing Research in Areas of Life Threatening Disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenofovir/emtricitabine

There are many diseases in the world for which we have not yet found a cure.  These diseases include HIV and Liver Disease.  There are many biotech companies that are researching for a cure for the disease and one may be close to finally producing one.

Friday, February 26, 2016

St. Jude Medical


There are approximately 610,000 people that die from heart disease each year.  That is 1 in every four people.  With these numbers, heart disease has become the worst disease in the country.  How can we combat this disease?  What if a company can invent technologies that can transform the treatment of this disease?  Well, there is a company that can do this and much more.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Feed the World

Biotechs Helping to Eliminate Hunger Worldwide



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Hunger has plagued mankind for centuries and it continues to do so to this day.  I have talked before about the different pathways in biotechnology that a person can take depending on their interests.  What if I were to tell you that there is a path in biotechnology that could help eliminate hunger worldwide. Would you believe me? Well its true.