Carthera SA received an additional €4.5 million (US$4.9 million) from investors to take its series B funding round to €42 million despite a tough fundraising environment for med-tech companies. Frédéric Sottilini, CEO of Carthera, told BioWorld that the strong investor interest was testament to their confidence in the company’s Sonocloud technology for brain disorder treatment.
With an urgent need to create new technologies to improve the detection of traumatic brain injuries (TBI), researchers from the University of Birmingham, U.K., have designed and developed a diagnostic device that can detect TBI by shining a laser into the eye.
Integra Lifesciences Holdings Corp. agreed to acquire Acclarent Inc. from Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Inc. subsidiary for $275 million in cash at closing with a further $5 million contingent on achievement of certain regulatory milestones.
Patent applications from Bellevue, Wash.-based Aiberry Inc. describe further aspects of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered mental health screening platform that is designed to improve efficiency and save time for healthcare providers.
Neuronetics Inc. gained expanded approval in Japan for its transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system to treat major depressive disorder called the Neurostar TMS, helping the Malvern, Pa.-based company increase its footprint in Asia.
Spark Biomedical Inc. is seeking patent protection for the use of its transcutaneous auricular neurostimulation (tAN) platform for treating stress and improving performance in stressful situations while controlling bleeding.
Rewalk Robotics Ltd. has integrated advanced sensing technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) into its latest exoskeleton prototype to enable autonomous decisionmaking. This milestone, coupled with Rewalk’s capabilities, holds enormous potential to create a new generation of exoskeletons that are more intuitive and respond to real-world conditions that users encounter daily, Rewalk CEO Larry Jasinski told BioWorld.
Apollo Neuroscience Inc. recently introduced a new software called Smartvibes for its Apollo wearable device to help people lower their stress levels and sleep better. There are a growing number of wearable technologies that have sensors that continuously measure physiological signals to help individuals monitor and manage their health conditions.
Using microglia and an unbiased screening method, investigators have identified almost 60 previously unknown targets for γ-secretase. Investigators from KU Leuven and colleagues published their results in Molecular Cell on Nov. 16, 2023.
Stanford University researchers are seeking patent protection for a medical device for performing endovascular surgical procedures, such as thrombectomy, rotablation, drug delivery and treating brain aneurysms. The device includes a magnetically actuated untethered rotation device, i.e., a magnetic spinner, that can navigate in blood vessels through its spinning-enabled propulsion.
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