52 North Health Ltd. raised $6 million in financing to bring its oncology products to the market including the Neutrocheck, a point-of-care device and app which monitors cancer patients at home at risk of developing neutropenic sepsis.
The recent $73 million raised by Cradle NV in a series B financing round will allow the company to build out its operations and improve its artificial intelligence-powered protein engineering platform.
The U.K.'s Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency chose five technologies for its AI Airlock pilot program as it looks to understand the best way to regulate artificial intelligence-powered medical devices so that they can be safely deployed across the national health service.
Tubulis GmbH has sealed a potential $415 million option and licensing deal under which it will apply proprietary technologies to discover an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) against a solid tumor target for Gilead Sciences Inc.
South Korean billionaire and chairman of Celltrion Group Jungjin Seo is returning Celltrion Inc. to its contract manufacturing organization (CMO) roots, as it relies on biosimilar sales to anchor the company in a fiercely competitive novel drug R&D arena.
Neo Medical SA received certification under the EU Medical Device Regulation for its entire portfolio of spine surgical technologies. The approval means that the company can continue selling its products, which helps with the surgical treatment of back pain, across markets in Europe as they are in compliance with the high-quality control standards required for medical devices.
An artificial intelligence-powered contactless monitoring device developed by Albus Health Ltd. can detect signs of asthma attacks in children up to five days before they occur.
In what represents the first patenting from Glasgow-based Microplate Dx Ltd., three of its co-founders describe a system for diagnosing microbial infections and performing rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing, enabling quicker and more precise determination of effective antibiotics.
Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd. recently launched its next generation transcatheter heart valve (THV), the Myval Octapro THV, which it says allows for better operator control for precise positioning and improved predictability in implantation. The new valve comes however, as the company battles with Edwards Lifesciences Corp. in a European court over patent infringement of its technology.
The U.K.’s leading bioethics body is calling for a new law to regulate the generation of stem cell-derived human embryo models and ensure that research does not cross ethical red lines. Currently, there is no statute governing the oversight of these models. In particular, bioethicists say there should be a statutory ban on the transfer of embryo models into the reproductive tract of humans and animals, with legal penalties for contraventions.