Five companies from molecular diagnostics to smartphone virtual reality simulators to treat anxiety disorders, representing a few countries are vying for World Cup honors in an inaugural competition organized by HITLAB at Columbia University next month. The U.S. seems to have the homefield advantage, with three of the companies hailing from California. The decision to include so many American companies makes it look more like a friendly between the MLS and a couple national teams than the FIFA World Cup it more closely resembled in the earlier stages. At the competition in Brazil this year, Germany emerged victorious.
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