Ifast Diagnostics Ltd. raised $6.5 million (£5 million) in seed funding to bring its rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) platform to the market. The company’s technology is vital in the fight against antimicrobial resistance and the funds will be used to conduct clinical trials to get the product to the market in the U.K., U.S. and EU, CEO Toby King, told BioWorld.

Data from two Alzheimer’s tests being developed by Roche Holding AG showed high accuracy in detecting the disease in patients being tested for the condition. The tests measure biomarkers in the blood linked to Alzheimer’s and will help provide desperately needed information by letting patients know whether they have the disease or not, Margherita Carboni, Neurology Indication Lead at Roche Diagnostics told BioWorld.

The U.K. government is partnering with Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc to use its sequencing technology to create the world’s-first ‘early warning system’ for future pandemics. The partnership includes the development of a pathogen-agnostic biosurveillance system across the national health service (NHS).

415 Capital Management GmbH launched its second fund as it looks to raise €150 million (US$165 million) to invest in companies developing medical technologies to address cardiovascular and neurovascular diseases.

The first filing from Cancerrisk AI Inc. describes their development of a system that uses deep learning to predict future cancer risk from a biopsy image.

Inbrain Neuroelectronics SL closed a $50 million series B financing round to advance clinical trials for its graphene-based brain-computer interface therapeutics platform. The company also secured additional funding from Merck KGaA GmbH which will go towards developing the technology for application across both central and peripheral nervous systems.

The contest between the two main classes of antiproliferatives for circulatory system use continues as seen in a presentation at this year’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics.

A major increase in the popularity of weight loss drugs, particularly GLP-1s, has created a rivalry with traditional device orientated approaches, but a new technology aims to navigate the space between them.

Remote monitoring for patients with implanted cardiac electrophysiology devices may finally be coming of age in the U.K. thanks to a review of these systems by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

A recent retrospective cohort study of Insight MMG highlighted potential of Lunit Inc.’s artificial intelligence-powered breast cancer screening tool in detecting “subtle signs of cancer” earlier for women.