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News and Trends 18 Jan 2023

Funding for industry-first cancer screening technology

Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) and SMi have secured a Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) grant to validate a new approach to detect cancer biomarkers. It will transform their use for routine cancer screening and enable monitoring of treatment efficacy in real time. Liquid biopsies are where a simple blood sample is analyzed for tiny quantities of cancer-related […]

January 18, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Jan 2023

Vésale Bioscience receives €1.8M grant for AMR phage project

Belgian company Vésale Bioscience has received €1.8 million ($1.9 million) in grants from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Fund for its PhageDiag project, a phagogram using artificial intelligence that enables decentralized diagnostics and personalized treatment. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top 10 global public health […]

January 18, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Jan 2023

BD and CerTest Biotec receive emergency use authorization for mpox test

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), and CerTest Biotec have announced emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a molecular polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for mpox virus detection. The VIASURE Monkeypox Virus Real Time PCR Reagents for BD MAX System is now available for BD MAX System users. “The […]

January 9, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 5 Jan 2023

Researchers discover new type of CRISPR gene scissors

Scientists at the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg in Germany, and Benson Hill, Inc. (Missouri) and Utah State University in the U.S., have found a nuclease, which they dubbed Cas12a2, that represents an entirely new type of CRISPR immune defense. Unlike any other previously known nuclease of the CRISPR-Cas immune system, the source of ‘gene scissors,’ Cas12a2 […]

January 5, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 22 Dec 2022

Watch: Norway’s Pre Diagnostics looks to early detection of Alzheimer’s

Pre Diagnostics AS is a new Norwegian company developing and commercializing an innovative and effective diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Founded by an experienced biotech team, Pre Diagnostics owns the licensed rights to a patent-protected new diagnostic test from the Norwegian university hospital AHUS. The company said it will pursue cost-efficient product development with […]

December 22, 2022 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Dec 2022

Prenetics acquires ACT Genomics

Prenetics Global Limited is acquiring a majority stake in ACT Genomics Holdings Company Limited, an Asia based genomics company specializing in precision oncology with operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and in the U.K. “With the addition of ACT’s technologies, capabilities and team, Prenetics will be well-positioned to accelerate the utilization of genetic […]

December 19, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

Asieris doses first patient in bladder cancer diagnostic trial

Asieris Pharmaceuticals has announced that Hexvix, a drug used for bladder cancer diagnosis, completed dosing for the first patient in its real-world clinical study at Hainan General Hospital Lecheng Branch. Hexvix has been approved in the U.S. and many European countries. The combined use of Hexvix and blue light cystoscopy (BLC) for the management of […]

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

Tachmed aiming to make healthcare more accessible

Tachmed is looking to transform access to healthcare through technology. The company’s CEO, Paul Christie, tells us how. What is the driving force behind Tachmed? What motivated you to work towards transforming digital diagnostics technology? It was during my private equity career that the idea of Tachmed was born. I was with a team running […]

December 14, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Opinion 12 Dec 2022

Artificial intelligence: a new era in rare genetic disease diagnosis

Despite the onset of the genomics era, rare disease diagnosis remains a challenge. Nostos Genomics’ co-founder, Rocío Acuña Hidalgo, and chief operating officer, Ansgar Lange, shed light on how artificial intelligence (AI) could fill in the gaps. It is estimated that 300 million people worldwide are affected by rare diseases and around 80% of these […]

December 12, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 8 Dec 2022

New method uses metabolism to detect cancers

When cancer is detected at an early stage, the rates of survival increase drastically, but today only a few cancer types are screened for. An international study led by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows that a new, previously untested method can easily find multiple types of newly formed cancers at the same […]

December 8, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Best in Biotech 1 Dec 2022

Five apps powering the future of at-home HIV tests

The smartphone revolution is providing a promising tool to combat the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. We’ve listed five HIV test apps in development that could help people carry out at-home HIV tests and prevent the spread of the infection. The COVID-19 pandemic in the last two years has demonstrated how vital rapid diagnostic tests […]

December 1, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

InfanDx tackles early detection of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy

InfanDx AG, a privately held diagnostics company focusing on the development and commercialization of novel diagnostic solutions for newborns, has completed the validation of metabolic biomarker panels for the early detection of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in newborns. The validated biomarkers of such panels will be the target of the company’s HypoxE blood test for […]

November 14, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Funding for industry-first cancer screening technology

Vésale Bioscience receives €1.8M grant for AMR phage project

BD and CerTest Biotec receive emergency use authorization for mpox test

Researchers discover new type of CRISPR gene scissors

Watch: Norway’s Pre Diagnostics looks to early detection of Alzheimer’s

Prenetics acquires ACT Genomics

Asieris doses first patient in bladder cancer diagnostic trial

Tachmed aiming to make healthcare more accessible

Artificial intelligence: a new era in rare genetic disease diagnosis

New method uses metabolism to detect cancers

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InfanDx tackles early detection of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy

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