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News and Trends 6 Jan 2016

Growing Mini-Brains in Labs to Better Understand Neurological Disease

Mini brains, about 3-4 mm are a breakthrough in Neurology which will enable researchers to study the development of neurological disease and perform drug tests ex vivo. Scientists from Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) in Vienna are underpinning the secrets behind the most fascinating human’s organ, the brain. By essentially growing brains from scratch, the […]

January 6, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 22 Dec 2015

Dutch Organ-on-Chip Biotech Hauls in €1.5M Funding from Pharma Syndicate in Project Against Animal Testing

Mimetas from Leiden (NL) has now been financed to develop an Organ-on-Chip (tissue model) to specifically test Neurotoxicity, as a piece of medtech to help clinical trials move away from Animal testing… Organs-on-Chips are microfluidic tissue models which mimic basic organ-to-organ coupling. Developed with the aim of simulating ADMET testing and drug screening in vitro, […]

December 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 16 Dec 2015

Global NGS Leader’s Influence in European Bioinformatics Field is Spreading Interest in Microbiomics

BioMérieux (France) is a diagnostics tech company which has partnered with the US Bioinformatics Giant Illumina to produce a novel Microbiological genetics sequencing kit: the bioMérieux EpiSeq. BioMérieux is a worldwide leading provider of diagnostic solutions (reagents, instruments, software) which determine the source of disease and contamination to improve patient health and reduce risk of hospital […]

December 16, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Best in Biotech 15 Dec 2015

Becoming Cyborg: 10 Amazing MedTech Inventions in the Biotech Industry

There have been some truly amazing Med-tech developments this year, each sounding like they’re right out of Science fiction (Fringe, anyone?!). Here’s a few seriously worth talking about. Gradually, we too are becoming turning bionic in our attitude to medicine – and due to accessibility of manufacturing platforms, creative innovators like those in the Biohacking […]

December 15, 2015 - 8 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 9 Dec 2015

Squeezing Cells: A Revolutionary Cancer Drug Delivery Platform for €455M?

The MIT spin-off SQZ Biotech has an invention (Cell SQueeZe) which could make vector drug delivery in Cancer a thing of the past… Roche thinks so too, and has now acquired this small biotech for €455M upfront. MIT Professors Klavs Jensen, Robert Langer and PhD Student Armon Sharei were focused on developing a more effective system for […]

December 9, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 9 Dec 2015

Here are the 6 Healthcare Disruptors We met in Paris

How can and will Healthcare be disrupted? This is an important question addressed at an event on Differential Medicine at ‘TheFamily‘ VC in Paris. On the 3rd and 4th December, I attended the Differential Medicine conference in Paris at the ‘The Family‘ HQ (an entrepreneurial VC). Here I give an overview of some of the […]

December 9, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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News and Trends 30 Nov 2015

How Wearable Electronics Will Change Clinical Trials?

In collaboration with ClinCapture Advances in sensor technology and microelectronics have opened new opportunities in the health and life sciences industries. Wearable sensors allow for continuous bio-monitoring without any manual intervention, thus reducing provider-patient interaction and costs while contributing improvements in the quality of the data. Wearable electronics, or wearables in short, are light electronics with embedded […]

November 30, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Glenn Keet

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News and Trends 20 Nov 2015

Get to Know the Top 50 Women in the UK’s Biotech Scene

The Movers & Shakers Report 2015 lists 50 of the Top female Bio-Entrepreneurs… here’s a select few I found particularly impressive in the Biotech Industry! Written by Miranda Weston-Smith, the BioBeat15 report is sponsored by Horton Ruston Poole, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, MedImmune and Pfizer to celebrate what women working in bio-business have brought to […]

November 20, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 18 Nov 2015

Nanomedicine Inside Out: A Nestlé Advance in Cuboid Drug Delivery Systems

A New feat in Nanomedicine: The Cubosome drug delivery system has now been 3D-mappped and studied internally by Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and University of Coimbra (Portugal) at the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne (Switzerland). What are Cubosomes? These small nanostructures are ‘crystalline liquid phases’ engineered in bulk to hold […]

November 18, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 13 Nov 2015

Curetis Molecular Diagnostics IPO Exceeds Expectations

The Southern German Med-tech for infectious disease biotech, Curetis, has sold shares up to a value of €40M, which is 10 million above its initial target, despite a lower ranged Offer price. Curetis have developed a molecular diagnostics system for hospital acquired infections (such as MRSA and Pneumonia). Their Unyvero system is a piece of […]

November 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 28 Oct 2015

Fighting Infection with a Pioneering Arsenal of Med-Tech Inventions from the UK

Bath, in South West England, has a lot more besides its historic beauty…The Jenkins Chemistry lab at the University of Bath has a fair few innovative solutions to the problem of infectious disease detection. Their latest design is a burns dressing which glows when a pathogenic biofilm is detected (as part of the Bacteriosafe Project) […]

October 28, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 21 Oct 2015

The SuperBones; Polymeric Smart Coating Strategy for Titanium Implants

Uppsala University (Sweden) in joint collaboration with Neutron-Scattering experts at the Institute of Laue-Langevin in Grenoble (France) will change the medical world of implants. A new growth-stimulating ‘gel’ will therefore help the body adopt such implants as its own – as man and machine merge! Welding artificial hip joints or making dental implants from titanium […]

October 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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