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Brain teaser

Carnitine metabolite has role in cognitive aging

Dec. 31, 2021
By Anette Breindl
Investigators at the University of Freiburg and Swiss startup Ultimate Medicine have identified a compound produced by the gut microbiome as contributing to age-related cognitive decline by modulating inhibitory synaptic transmission and neural network activity.
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Patient, clinician with Hunova

Movendo, Maragal Medical partner to assess fall risk with Hunova robotic system

Dec. 28, 2021
By Annette Boyle
Movendo Technology srl and Maragal Medical PC have collaborated to provide free community screening for the risk of falls for Massachusetts Medicare patients using Movendo’s Hunova robotic technology. Hunova performs a progressive assessment on seated and standing patients to evaluate their flexibility, strength and balance. The system also provides personalized rehabilitative therapy recommendations.
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Apollo Health Ventures closes $180M fund for tackling age-related diseases

Dec. 1, 2021
By Cormac Sheridan
Apollo Health Ventures raised $180 million for a new venture capital fund focused on biotechnology companies developing therapies for age-related diseases. It may also invest in healthtech and digital health opportunities, but the latter constitute a minority pursuit for an investment team that is building up capabilities and expertise in disease biology.
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Cambrian plans to use its $100M series C to fight age-related diseases

Oct. 26, 2021
By Lee Landenberger
When James Peyer, Cambrian Biopharma Inc.’s CEO, watched his grandfather fail every cancer treatment and eventually pass away, he came to a realization that now forms the backbone of his company. “The more I learned about cancer, the more convinced I became that we were approaching cancer as a disease in the wrong way,” Peyer told BioWorld. “We were waiting until people were sick and only then doing something about it.” Cambrian just closed on an oversubscribed series C that brought in $100 million to develop a pipeline of therapies designed to treat and prevent age-related diseases.
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Kizoo to invest $362M in ‘rejuvenation biotech’

May 7, 2021
By Cormac Sheridan
DUBLIN – Michael Greve, one of Germany’s most successful internet entrepreneurs and investors, is personally committing €300 million (US$362 million) to building a portfolio of biotechnology firms focused on different aspects of aging. His investment vehicle, Kizoo Technology Capital GmbH, of Karlsruhe, has already provided seed funding to more than a dozen early stage firms. Greve is now ready to invest in follow-on rounds, particularly in four core companies he described as “category openers” in rejuvenation biotech. “We are really super focused, because there are so many things we could do,” he told BioWorld.
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Blood sport

Liver protein improves brain function after exercise, but remember Ember

July 9, 2020
By Anette Breindl
Exercise is a powerful way to keep the elderly brain working well, not just in individuals that are healthy, but also in those with neurodegenerative disease. Even individuals with familial Alzheimer’s, though they will develop dementia regardless of whether they exercise or not, will have relatively better cognitive function if they exercise than if they don’t.
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Newco news

Fountain fires up aging drugs platform with new $6M financing

May 19, 2020
By Michael Fitzhugh
Fountain Therapeutics Inc., a California company working to create treatments for age-related diseases, said Khosla Ventures has led a $6 million series A-1 financing of the startup, with participation from Nan Fung Life Sciences, which earlier contributed $5 million to the round.
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Feisty old folks

Sprightly genomes bring insights into healthy aging, early-onset illness

Jan. 28, 2020
By John Fox
Australian researchers led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney have compiled the first reference genome database of healthy older Australians, which potentially can predict disease-linked gene variants more accurately than has been previously possible.
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The unknown unknowns

New brain-controlled, bodywide anti-aging mechanism identified

Jan. 10, 2020
By Anette Breindl
How organisms age, and what determines their lifespan, is one of the basic questions of biology. It is also a major area of biopharmaceutical interest. Partly, this is because most people want to delay shuffling off this mortal coil for as long as possible.
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Experts look to the future of voice tech in health care

Jan. 7, 2020
By Liz Hollis
LAS VEGAS – Over the past three years or so, voice technology has been on the rise, with hospitals looking to leverage it to help patients. Tech companies have taken notice; for example, Amazon assisted with technology to make voice skills HIPAA-compliant, with six skills unveiled as part of that effort.
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