Technology

Samuels & Associates, a Boston-based real estate developer, is proposing a four-building life sciences park at the former BJ’s Wholesale Club headquarters in Westborough.

In the latest round of the fight between Silicon Valley and Massachusetts regulators over whether workers for companies like Uber and Lyft should be considered full-time employees, the businesses are pushing a UCLA study showing gig workers have had an economic impact of $899 million in Worcester County.

Alexander MacDougall, most recently a staff writer at the Innovation Leader in Boston, has joined WBJ's newsroom to cover the health care and diversity & inclusion beats.

Drones dropping defibrillators from the sky, wearable watches that improve CPR, and telehealth services bringing medical expertise to any location in the world are just a few innovations seeking to improve medical outcomes in hard-to-reach areas.

Fueled in part by transformative grants since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the Worcester medical school is expanding. To maintain this level of growth, however, there is one key ingredient: people.

SALMON at Medway, a senior living community, is collaborating with Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City to conduct a study aimed at improving various aspects of life for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.  

Holliston biotechnology company Biostage Inc. has secured a patent to allow the company known for its esophageal cancer treatment research to pursue treatments for lung cancer.

Sonny Phengsomphone opened the business in the memory of his sister, who died in a Thailand refugee camp while migrating to the U.S., and in honor of his 62-year-old mother.

The building, currently known as the Project Center, is to be renamed to the Laurie A. Leshin Global Project Center, according to the Thursday announcement from WPI.

Holliston biotechnology company Biostage Inc. saw its net losses for the year climb by $3.1 million to approximately $8 million as a result of ongoing wrongful death litigation.