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Sep. 14, 2012

Financings roundup: iWalk raises $17 million for personal bionics platform

iWalk (Bedford, Massachusetts) has raised $17 million in a private Series D equity financing round led by Gilde Healthcare Partners. Geoff Pardo, partner at Gilde, has joined iWalk's board. Read More

Report from Israel: The time seems to be right for biomedical clustering in Israel

Sugar, sweat, yeast power new drug delivery device

Washington roundup: Sequestration may not affect device user fee sums in 2013

Agreements/contracts: UW, GE report investment in diagnostic imaging, radiology

Deal roundup: athenahealth to acquire Healthcare Data Services

Restructuring roundup: Ethicon in plan to add new $185M facility in Athens

Patent watch: Solta Medical and BTL resolve patent dispute

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Precision psychiatry beyond, or before, biomarkers

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There is broad agreement that psychiatric diagnoses in their current form are not reflective of any underlying biology, and that this is one of the things...

ADPD 2026: Can we prevent dementia? Scientists quantify it

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Neurodegenerative disease and cognitive decline cannot be explained by a single process. Beta-amyloid plaques, hyperphosphorylated tau, alpha-synuclein, activated...

First-in-class POLG activator restores mtDNA across mutations

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Researchers from Pretzel Therapeutics Inc. presented preclinical data of PX-578, a first-in-class POLG activator aimed at restoring mtDNA replication and...

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ADPD 2026: Three inflection points to target Alzheimer’s disease

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A new way of understanding Alzheimer’s disease, based on biological inflection points that mark decisive moments in the progression of the disorder, could change...