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Oura targets $2.2B in US listing for smart rings

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Oura targets $2.2B in US listing for smart rings

Oura, the Finnish maker of health-tracking smart rings, plans to raise up to $2.2 billion in an initial public offering, according to a Monday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. An IPO at that price would value the company — which has sold millions of rings and counts over five million paying subscribers — as high as $14.1 billion. Despite growing revenue, Oura's losses surpassed $900 million in the last year. Its Nasdaq listing is seen as a test of investor appetite for wearables.

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Oura is preparing for one of the biggest consumer technology IPOs of the year, with the Finnish smart-ring maker and its shareholders seeking to raise as much as $2.2 billion in a U.S. offering. The listing will give public-market investors a chance to bet...

Scientific thumbnail showing a gene regulatory network and two cancer-related cell states, epithelial and mesenchymal, connected by a bistability loop to illustrate the hidden logic of cell identity.

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What Cancer Networks Reveal About the Hidden Logic of Cell Identity

A new PLOS Complex Systems study uses monotone Boolean models to ask a deep question: which cell states are most naturally supported by a gene regulatory network? The answer may help explain why cancer-linked networks often settle into stable identities, including epithelial and mesenchymal states tied to metastasis.

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Cells are often described as biological machines, but that image is too rigid. A better metaphor may be a decision system. Every cell is constantly receiving signals, weighing internal conditions, and settling into patterns of behavior that determine what it...