Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: 3D Medical, Apollo Med Innovations, Aytu Bioscience, Beroni Group, Biosig Technologies, Bruker, EfficacyAI, Forsitech, Health Catalyst, Healthfinch, Inscopix, Medmira, Quantzig, Standard Capital, Todos Medical, Webbdx.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alnylam, Biontech, Clinigen, Cytodyn, Enzychem, Pfizer, Protokinetix.
New England Biolabs Inc. (NEB) has launched its research use only product that can be utilized for the detection of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 RNA. It is intended to serve as an alternative to RT-qPCR, enabling visual detection of amplification of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid in half an hour.
The checkpoint molecule CD47 has high hopes riding on it in oncology as being the innate immune equivalent of PD-1. Multiple companies are developing blockers against CD47 and/or its ligand, SIRPa, for the treatment of various tumors.
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