The plan is to create new “interventions" using "field of injury" technology to catch molecular changes in the lining of the respiratory tract, which can indicate cancer or cancer-related changes in the lung.
Siemens AG has announced a plan for its Siemens Healthineers business to go public in the first half of the year, according to a company statement. It’s not the first time the German medical imaging and diagnostic business has made its intentions to file an IPO known, but perhaps the company is betting on a more receptive audience in the current market.
Panelists at the recent J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, CA were charged with separating the hype from the reality in the field of diagnostics and offered insight into what products will win in the space.
LSP has raised $330 million for its second medical technology fund. The big jump in size over the first fund tees up LSP to place bets on 15 companies with close-to-market devices, diagnostics and digital health tools.
A venture capital firm in the Netherlands — backed by some big names in Big Pharma — has raised $95 million in a new fund to fuel European biotech startups.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology that enables a smartphone to perform lab-grade medical diagnostic tests that typically require large, expensive instruments. Costing only $550, the spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer from Bioengineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Brian Cunningham’s lab attaches to a smartphone and analyzes patient blood, urine, or saliva samples as reliably as clinic-based instruments that cost thousands of dollars.
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