South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety cleared Acryl Inc.’s Acryl-D01 as the country’s first AI-based digital therapeutic software solution to aid depression screening and diagnosis on Dec. 20. Approved as a class II software as a medical device, Acryl-D01 utilizes a patient’s medical records to quantify and analyze the individual’s emotional response and assess the probability of having clinical depression based on the data.
A new method to diagnose skin cancer was validated for the first time in clinical trials that show Dermr Health Solutions Pty Ltd.’s non-invasive microneedle patch collects near-equivalent genetic information compared to a skin biopsy without pain or cutting.
Taipei, Taiwan- and Watertown, Mass.-based Syncell recently raised $15 million in series A financing to advance its subcellular protein purification and spatial proteomics analysis product called Microscoop Mint, based on its Microscoop platform technology.
SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. and Proen Therapeutics Co. Ltd. joined hands in a research collaboration to advance up to two preclinical small protein-based radiopharmaceuticals by 2027 – the year SK Biopharmaceuticals aims to “become a leading radiopharma player” worldwide.
Stereotaxis Inc. and Chinese partner Shanghai Microport EP Medtech Co. Ltd. gained the National Medical Products Administration’s approval of its Magbot magnetic navigation ablation catheter Dec. 9 for use with Stereotaxis’ robotic ablation system to treat drug-resistant cardiac arrhythmias in China.
Bring your dog to work day looks a little different at Spotitearly. The Tel Aviv-based company asks its canine workers to bring their whole selves to the job – particularly their finely trained noses – to help suss out cancer in breath samples. The dogs’ unique capabilities are interpreted by AI to capture canine indicators humans might miss and the combo has remarkably high accuracy, 93% or better in three of the four common cancers tested.
New research confirmed long-term efficacy and safety of a novel minimally invasive procedure with Insightec Inc.’s Exablate transcanial magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound system to alleviate symptoms of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A federal jury awarded Insulet Corp. $452 million against Eoflow Co. Ltd., concluding that Eoflow and other defendants stole trade secrets to create the Eopatch, a device with striking similarities to Omnipod, Insulet’s market-dominating tubeless insulin pump.
After raising AU$7 million (US$4.5 million) in is initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange last week, Renerve Ltd. is already exploring mainland China for its portfolio of nerve repair and regeneration products.
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