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- Jack Stoddard, former executive of Haven and Accolade, has a new company for older adults;
- Stem cell manufacturing company Cellino is raising its next round of financing;
- The CDC isn't stopping flights from the UK, despite a new COVID-19 variant.
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A former Haven exec is working with Alphabet's GV and Andreessen Horowitz to change how and where we care for older Americans
- Jack Stoddard,
Haven 's former chief operating officer, is launching a new startup, Patina Health. - It's hoping to make healthcare easier for older people and their loved ones.
- Patina has raised $57 million, and it's launching early next year.
EXCLUSIVE: Rising biotech Cellino is raising $75 million to make it easier to produce stem cells with AI
- Cellino is raising between $75 million and $80 million for a Series A round, sources told Insider.
- The startup is using artificial intelligence and lasers to develop treatments using
stem cells . - It launched in February with $16 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures and other investors.
The CDC has no plans to stop flights coming from the UK despite the rise of a new Delta-related variant
- About 6% of Delta cases in England are now of a variant called AY.4.2 - and the figure is rising.
- But the CDC has no plans to stop flights from the UK, its director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
- The CDC was "following the science very, very carefully," she told NBC's Meet The Press.
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