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Cytotheryx, a Rochester firm co-founded by Mayo Clinic that uses genetically engineered pigs to make human liver cells, recently acquired the intellectual assets of a San Francisco biotech company.
Mayo Clinic is now contracting with Rochester-based Nanodropper, which won Minnesota’s top business pitch competition in 2021. That means local people wanting to buy the specialty eyedropper product can get it directly from Mayo Clinic’s Rochester optical offices.
In February 2021, Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Kim Norton and Mayo Clinic executives welcomed Google's first Minnesota office to Rochester as a boost to “provide sustained economic opportunity not only for the Rochester area, but for our entire state.” Since then, not much has been seen of the office other than a Google sign.