It’s April, which means we at Technical.ly have growing industries on the brain.

That’s not a disease, but the focus of this month of our editorial calendar. We’ll be exploring one particular industry for each of our four markets — and in Philly, that’s life sciences (speaking of diseases).

Why life sciences? For one, Philly ranks eighth among the country’s top life sciences clusters, with 51,000 people working in the industry. You can also look to the success of companies such as Spark Therapeutics (recently dubbed the city’s biggest VC-backed exit ever), Group K Diagnostics (raises and accolades) and NeuroFlow (more raises and accolades) as well as the proliferation of eds and meds in the region.

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