In order to combat the hundreds of millions of empty toothpaste tubes that are destined for landfill across the world each year, Canadian entrepreneurs Mike Medicoff and Damien Vince have created a ...

Vital Therapies (VTL) has spent years trying to turn plastic tubes into a lifesaving artificial liver. The work has not gone well. Multiple clinical trials of Vital’s biomedical device called the ELAD ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...