Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Atricure, Elucid, Qnovia, Relu, Surmodics.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Allurion, Endotronix, Hyperfine, Real Heart, Synchron, Videra.
The E4 variant of the APO gene, the R47H variant of the TREM2 gene, and female sex are three of the strongest risk factors for the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). By combining all three of them in a mouse model of tauopathy, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical School have identified microglial inflammation and senescence as processes that occurred more strongly in female mice as tauopathy developed.
Cereno Scientific AB’s positive top-line results from the phase IIa trial of histone deacetylase inhibitor CS1 in pulmonary arterial hypertension provide a “clear path forward” in the debilitating, fatal disease, the company said.
The Pi-Cardia Ltd. Shortcut — the catheter-based, leaflet modification solution for treating heart valves — received U.S. FDA clearance. The device was granted breakthrough device designation from the regulatory agency and is designed to split bioprosthetic aortic valve leaflets in patients undergoing valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures who are at risk of coronary obstruction.
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