Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Foundation Medicine, Nightware, Nuvasive.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Akida, Applied UV, Apyx Medical, Cleveland Clinic, Concept Medical, Epic, Orbusneich, P+F, Protec Scientific.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: What is causing COVID-19 blood clots?; Using machine learning to predict survival rates with OHCA; Remote cardiac rehabilitation proves itself.
Wellcome Leap has launched its first program, dedicating $50 million to help develop human tissues, organoids and full organs. The Human Organs, Physiology and Engineering (HOPE) program is looking to bring biologists and engineers together to develop both therapeutic organs as well as organs that can be used in vitro to help discover and develop new medications.
Preparing for a Biden presidency in which COVID-19 will be a top priority, the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris transition team named a board of scientists and public health experts Nov. 9 to advise the team on how to respond to the surging pandemic in the U.S.
The use of liquid biopsies, tests that look for variants in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) shed by tumors into blood plasma, could lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment in many cancers, according to University of Washington researchers. The tests misidentified a noncancer mutation that is particularly common in older people as a mutation used as a biomarker for PARP inhibitors indicated for use in prostate cancer, a study published in JAMA Oncology found, but the problem likely extends to other malignancies.
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