Jupiter Endovascular exceeds $40M series B fundraising target for its TFX platform
Jupiter Endovascular, which is a startup spun out of Neptune Medical a year ago, raised more than its target of $40 million in series B fundraising it plans to use…
Olympus, W.L. Gore link on global distribution deal for endoscopic placement tool
Olympus has inked a collaboration deal with U.S.-based W.L. Gore, giving the Japanese medtech giant rights to be the international distributor of the Gore Viabil endoscopic placement tool. Known specifically…
Encora names Nadim Yared CEO as co-founder, previous chief Daniel Carballo takes VP role
Encora Therapuetics, maker of a wearable device that targets essential tremors in patients, named Nadim Yared as chairman and CEO as previous chief and company co-founder Daniel Carballo takes on…
Lilly calls for ‘urgent improvements’ in Europe to boost diagnostic testing for Alzheimer’s
Eli Lilly is calling on European countries to make “urgent improvements” to their Alzheimer’s disease diagnostic testing practices just weeks after nabbing a new approval on the continent for its…
Black holes might hold the key to a 60-year cosmic mystery
The universe is full of different types of radiation and particles that can be observed here on Earth. This includes photons across the entire range of the electromagnetic spectrum, from…
AI discovery outfit Turbine looks to turbocharge AstraZeneca’s ADC efforts
AstraZeneca is once again teaming up with Hungarian artificial intelligence specialist Turbine as it looks to speed up and gain deeper insights into its antibody-drug conjugate discovery process. AstraZeneca is…
IceCure Medical stock jumps as FDA greenlights breast cancer cryoablation treatment
IceCure Medical’s tumor-freezing treatment ProSense has nabbed FDA approval, making it the first medical device of its kind to be endorsed for the local treatment of breast cancer. The Israeli…
Foundation Medicine looks to boost cancer biomarker testing in Black, Latinx and LGBTQ+ communities
Foundation Medicine has a big IDEA—Improving Diagnostics Education and Awareness—and, now, it’s handing out a new grant attached to the program. Specifically, the Boston-based precision medicine company is sending out…
Precision Neuroscience study explores 1st human recipients of its minimally invasive brain-computer interface
The brain-computer interface developer Precision Neuroscience has put forward a study detailing the experiences of its first human patients—showing its minimally invasive approach is capable of both collecting high-bandwidth neural…
Philips, Getinge team up to push integrated anesthesia platform
Philips and Getinge aim to combine their respective equipment for patient monitoring and delivering anesthesia into a single workstation, with the goal of simplifying operations in the operating room. Described…