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GitHub has made its first major update since Microsoft officially acquired the ubiquitous code-sharing service for $7.5 billion: It's giving away unlimited free hosting for private coding projects. With GitHub Free, developers can now host as many private coding projects they want for free. This is a big deal because, in the past, GitHub's free…

Scientists recently measured mysteriously repeating radio signals coming from a galaxy 1.5 billion light-years away. The repeating signal was part of 13 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by a new telescope in Canada. Fast radio bursts are not exceedingly rare, however, this is only the second repeating FRB to be measured in history. The finding was…

Pharma giant Eli Lilly & Co.'s Monday acquisition of biotech Loxo Oncology for $8 billion was a big deal, both for Eli Lilly and the wider biopharmaceutical industry. It also represents a major payday for venture-capital firm Aisling Capital, with expected returns of around $470 million on its roughly 2 million shares, managing partner Steve…

Sitting in his spacious, wood-accented midtown office, Pfizer oncology chief Andy Schmeltz gestures to a diagram that charts out the drug giant's agenda for the next several years. It shows the pharmaceutical company's ambitious "15 in 5" plan, laying out the 15 franchises that could become billion-dollar sellers for the company — far more than…

Mark Zuckerberg has sold close to 30 million shares of Facebook to fund an ambitious biomedical-research project, called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with a goal of curing all disease within a generation. A less publicized initiative related to the $5 billion program includes work on brain-machine interfaces, devices that essentially translate thoughts into commands. One…

Sitting in his spacious, wood-accented midtown office, Pfizer oncology chief Andy Schmeltz gestures to a diagram that charts out the drug giant's agenda for the next several years. It shows the pharmaceutical company's ambitious "15 in 5" plan, laying out the 15 franchises that could become billion-dollar sellers for the company — far more than…

Venrock partner Cami Samuels has a bold prediction going into 2019: "Moderna will exit at a $3 billion valuation next year." Moderna debuted on the public market on December 7 after raising more than $600 million in the biggest initial public offering in biotech history. While the IPO valued Moderna at $7.5 billion, it's currently…

A plant that's nearly identical to marijuana became legal to grow in the US earlier this month. As a result of the US Farm Bill, which President Trump signed into law at the end of December, American farmers will be able to plant and harvest hemp, a strain of the same plant species from which…

This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence "Digital Health Briefing" subscribers hours before appearing on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. Massive US conglomerate 3M acquired the tech business of healthcare speech recognition company M*Modal for $1 billion, highlighting healthcare players' bullishness on voice tech in healthcare. Business Insider…

When Teresa Brewer told her 7-year-old son that she was joining Roblox as its new VP of corporate communications, his reaction was memorable. "His look was — I'm going to categorize it as 'pride,'" Brewer told Business Insider. "That, in a nutshell, is how I'm feeling about [the new job]." Brewer is joining Roblox after…