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Newly published research on nanostraws from the founders of Breakout Labs company, Stealth Biosciences, appears in ACS Nano

Research from the laboratories of Stealth Biosciences co-founders, Nicholas Melosh and Craig Garner, shows that biomolecule delivery through nanostraws is enhanced by localized electroporation. more

Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs Turns More Science Projects Into Businesses

Forbes April 17, 2013
By Ryan Mac

Fresh off its first year of delivering grants to promising scientific research technologies, the Peter Thiel-backed Breakout Labs announced today... more

Peter Thiel's latest bets boost Siri clone and cancer therapy

VentureBeat April 17, 2013
By Christina Farr

Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away from making risky bets in disruptive technology and research.
 
Today, the... more

Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs Funds "Nanostraws" And A Siri-Like Natural Language Processing Startup

TechCrunch April 17, 2013
By Kim-Mai Cutler

Breakout Labs, a Peter Thiel-backed effort that supports startups doing cutting-edge research that might still be too risky to get... more

Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs backs 'nanostraw' startup

San Francisco Business Times April 17, 2013
By Ron Leuty

Small is big for Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs.

The program, backed by the San Francisco-based foundation of PayPal... more

Breakout Labs funds two companies creating radically distinct interfaces between biology and technology

The Thiel Foundation announces first Breakout Labs awards of 2013 San Francisco - April 17, 2013 - The Thiel Foundation announced today the first more

Local firms blaze trails to treatment

Boulder County Business Reporter March 29, 2013
By Beth Potter
"Through therapies and drug candidates, bioscience companies in Boulder are developing treatments for heart disease and... more

Start it up

The Scientist  April 1, 2013
By Dan Cossins
Young researchers who left the academic path to transform their bright ideas into thriving companies discuss their experiences, and how you... more

Longevity: Internal improvements

BioCentury Feb 25,2013
By  Kai-Jye Lou
A handful of companies are using non- natural amino acids to improve the phar- macokinetic and metabolic profiles of pep- tides and proteins,... more

The Wealthy Catalyst

Corporate Knights
By Tyler Hamilton
Through its breakout labs program, the private foundation of PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel funds radical ideas with huge potential for positive change.... more

Radical science finds savior in Thiel

San Francisco Business Times
By Lindsay Riddell
"In the basement of a ramshackle building in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood — once the home of Miss Marty’s Beauty College ­— a... more

Harnessing Tornados For Energy And More: The Radical Projects Funded By Peter Thiel

FastCompany (FastCoexist)
By Ariel Schwartz
"The eccentric PayPal billionaire doesn’t just invest in Silicon Valley tech companies. He’s giving money for crazy projects that do... more

Peter Thiel's Latest Pet Project: Tornado Powered Energy

Popular Science
By Rebecca Boyle
December 18
"Billionaire Peter Thiel is already trying to create all sorts of zany things: 3-D printed meat, reconstructed brain tissue,... more

Peter Thiel Funds Effort To Tap Tornado Power To Generate Electricity

Forbes
By Todd Woody
12/18/12
"Talk about alternative energy.  Billionaire Silicon Valley tech investor Peter Thiel has funded a Canadian engineer trying to tap the power of... more

The Shape of Things to Come in Science

Chicago Tribune
December 16, 2012
By Melissa Harris
"At the end of every year, I feature three teams of Chicago innovators whose ideas won't hit the big-time soon but have the... more

Sarnia's tornado man gets funding from PayPal founder

Toronto Star
December 13, 2012
By Tyler Hamilton Louis Michaud couldn't ask for a better partner. But he had to turn to California to find him.
The retired refinery... more

Power a City with Tornados? Latest Grants Announced by Thiel Foundation's Breakout Labs Includes an Unusual Twist

Canadian company, AVEtec, plans proof-of-concept test to extract energy from a man-made, controlled tornado San Francisco - December 13, 2012 - The... more