Tag: technology

April 14, 2021

Biognosys and Siemens Healthineers have entered a strategic agreement to expedite the diagnostic protein biomarkers discovery and assay development. This deal will combine Biognosys’ expertise in unbiased biomarker discovery technologies and solutions with Siemens Healthineers’ biomarker assay development, lab testing […]

April 13, 2021

From optogenetics to sonogenetics to magnetognetics, scientists around the world are investigating new techniques to treat Parkinson’s disease without the need for invasive surgery. There is still no treatment that can reverse the effects of Parkinson’s disease, a condition estimated […]

April 12, 2021

On the heels of its recently released data in teens ages 12-15, Pfizer and BioNTech said they applied to the FDA to expand emergency use authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine to include that age group. Meanwhile, real-world data from Israel […]

April 12, 2021

Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Nuance for $56.00 per share, implying a 23% premium to the closing price of Nuance on […]

April 8, 2021

Progress in science and technology offers extraordinary opportunities to develop innovative medical products that can save lives and lead to better treatments, better diagnostics and better care for patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is committed to advancing the […]

April 7, 2021

A team of scientists from the University of California Santa Cruz, USA, recently identified a novel variant (B.1.x) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that might be circulating in at least 20 US states and six countries globally. […]

April 5, 2021

Hardy Diagnostics, in partnership with Autobio, has launched the Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionized Time of Flight instrument. The device, which is otherwise known as MALDI-TOF, offers high-speed detection and taxonomical classification of bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi based on proteomic fingerprinting. […]

March 24, 2021

Total medical devices industry cross border deals worth $545.3m were announced globally for February 2021, with the $108m private equity deal with Mainstay Medical International being the sector’s biggest investment, according to GlobalData’s deals database. The value marked a decrease […]

March 24, 2021

Digital healthcare company Ava is set to commence the study of a wearable fertility tracker device to detect Covid-19 infection in real-time and alert individuals to get tested or self-isolate prior to symptom onset. The Ava Fertility Tracker is primarily […]

March 23, 2021

Estimates of the proportion of COVID-19 cases caused by asymptomatic individuals vary but make up a significant minority of transmission events even at the low end of the range. The role of people with no significant symptoms in the transmission […]

March 19, 2021

VA’s ongoing analysis of the only site operational with the new EHR, the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., precipitated the need for a schedule shift, the agency said. Mann-Grandstaff went live in October last year, the first site […]

March 17, 2021

CN Bio, a leading developer of single and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), otherwise known as organ-on-a-chip (OOC), today announced the commercial launch of its new PhysioMimix OOC Multi-Organ MPS. The next-generation platform combines CN Bio’s in vitro 3D liver model, […]

March 17, 2021

These workflows often consist of lengthy, multistep protocols. Ahuva Odenheimer, a senior research associate working on behalf of venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering, explained how the VOYAGER increases both throughput and reproducibility at the push of a button: “My lab […]

March 16, 2021

ETC-159, a made-in-Singapore anti-cancer drug that is currently in early phase clinical trials for use in a subset of colorectal and gynaecological cancers, could also prevent some tumours from resisting therapies by blocking a key DNA repair mechanism, researchers from […]

March 15, 2021

A new concept of on-demand drug delivery system has emerged in which the drugs are automatically released from in vivo medical devices simply by shining light on the skin. A research team led by Professor Sei Kwang Hahn of the […]