Chemeleon to Collaborate with Mayo Clinic to Finalize Ultra-Rapid Assay, Launches $10M Series A

Results in seconds rather than hours: Groundbreaking instrument-free assay nears completion

14-Apr-2025 - Chemeleon, a disruptive innovator in diagnostic technology, announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to complete development and clinical validation of their ultra-rapid, instrument-free assay poised to redefine point-of-care (POC) testing in emergency settings. This collaboration will focus on ...

Sysmex establishes a subsidiary in Kenya

Strengthening business foundations in East Africa

09-Apr-2025 - Sysmex Corporation has announced the establishment of a new subsidiary, Sysmex East Africa Ltd., in Kenya to promote business expansion in emerging countries as part of the company’s growth strategy. Going forward, Sysmex will strengthen its sales and customer care systems in nine East African ...

Nanotechnology: DNA origami boosts sensitivity of rapid tests

Early detection of strokes and heart attacks

08-Apr-2025 - An LMU team has developed a technology that can amplify the signals of biomarkers in conventional test strips more than a hundredfold. Now the researchers are commercializing the method. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, pretty much everybody is familiar with this technology: paper-based rapid test ...

Sensors against superbugs

Dangerous increase in antimicrobial resistance: Detect resistant pathogens faster and start customized treatment in good time

02-Apr-2025 - Antibiotic-resistant bacteria can cause life-threatening infections that are almost impossible to treat with existing medication. As a result, common illnesses such as urinary tract infections or skin wounds are becoming a health risk. Empa researchers are therefore working on sensors that ...

Silk sponges instead of animal testing

How a 3D cell culture system could revolutionize cancer diagnostics

28-Mar-2025 - An FFG-funded consortium of Austrian research groups from the University of Vienna, MedUni Vienna and Technikum Wien together with company partner DOC Medikus GmbH has developed an innovative bioanalytical test system for radiopharmaceutical drug candidates for cancer diagnosis and therapy. It ...

Brainomix Completes £14M ($18M) Series C Round to Advance Its Transformative AI Imaging Technology in Healthcare

University of Oxford spinout accelerates commercial expansion in the US of its innovative stroke AI imaging solution, with its demonstrated impact on vital treatments

25-Mar-2025 - Brainomix, a company pioneering AI-powered imaging tools in stroke and lung fibrosis, announced the completion of a £14M ($18M) Series C investment round. The round is co-led by prominent healthtech investors that include existing investors, Parkwalk Advisors, the UK’s largest growth EIS fund ...

Pocket-sized breath test for stomach bacteria

Mini sensor analyses breath for infection with Helicobacter pylori

21-Mar-2025 - Stomach ulcers, gastritis and even stomach cancer are often the result of an infection with Helicobacter pylori. If the bacterium remains unrecognised for a long time, this can have serious consequences. Until now, however, diagnostic detection has been time-consuming and expensive. Researchers ...

Predicting cancer risk more precisely

Li-Fraumeni syndrome: A new type of cluster analysis makes customised cancer screening tests possible

18-Mar-2025 - People with the rare Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) have a high risk of developing cancer. Almost all those affected will develop cancer once, and in many cases several times, during their lifetime. LFS is a hereditary disease caused by disease-relevant variants in the TP53 gene. Researchers at ...

Eurobio Scientific increases its footprint in Italy

14-Mar-2025 - Eurobio Scientific, a leading French group in in vitro specialty medical diagnostics and life sciences, announces the signing on March 11, 2025 of an agreement to acquire the assets of the Life Science unit of Voden Medical Instruments Spa. The unit focuses on diagnostics, cellular and molecular ...

From handicap to asset: AI approach leverages optics phenomenon to produce better images

The potential e.g. in diagnostics is huge

04-Mar-2025 - Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is a microscopy technique widely used to investigate cells and tissues. Even though first biomedical applications based on QPI have been developed, both acquisition speed and image quality need to improve to guarantee a widespread reception. Scientists from the ...