Thiel's Breakout Labs adds cash backer for life science ventures; Sanofi subsidiary buys stake in Alnylam;

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> The investment group NetScientific is backing Peter Thiel's philanthropic Breakout Labs' seed investments of new tech companies with $250,000 in follow-on cash. "Over the past two years Breakout Labs has proven new funding models that help advance research out of the lab and into the world at large are sorely needed," said Farad Azima, CEO of NetScientific. "This partnership provides NetScientific with access to some of the most revolutionary new technologies coming out of Silicon Valley and beyond. We're impressed by Breakout Lab's ability to identify and foster revolutionary life science companies and look forward to working with them to help support a new wave of scientific innovation." Release

> Sanofi's ($SNY) Boston-based subsidiary Genzyme has exercised its rights to buy a stake of Alnylam ($ALNY), completing a deal with the RNAi biotech announced at JP Morgan in January. Release

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