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Nature Biotechnology's academic spinouts of 2017

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Our annual survey highlights how immune-oncology and screens based on the application of cutting-edge omics technologies are providing a launchpad for a succession of startups interrogating biology across biomedicine.

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    In the version of this article initially published, the name and photo of Viviane Tabar, one of BlueRock's founders, was omitted. A misplaced '&' in the author list in the PDF has been corrected, and the abbreviation MSKCC added in the text. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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Branca, M., Garber, K. & DeFrancesco, L. Nature Biotechnology's academic spinouts of 2017. Nat Biotechnol 36, 297–306 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4121

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