Munich-based MedTech startup aims to revolutionise laparoscopic surgery

Symphera secures €2.4 million in seed financing

18-Sep-2024 - Symphera, a Munich-based medical device startup, has successfully closed a €2.4 million seed financing round. The round was led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and saw participation from Bayern Kapital, CARMA FUND, UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators, Stern Stewart Ventures, as well as ...

Caresyntax Raises $180 Million Funding to Accelerate Growth and Adoption of Precision Surgery

22-Aug-2024 - Caresyntax, a vendor-neutral precision surgery platform, announced raising a total commitment of $180 million through a series C extension and growth debt expansion round. Investors in the $180 million round include Symbiotic Capital, MTIP AG, BIONIQ Capital, PFM Health Sciences, Pictet ...

Innovative research aims to improve wound healing and cancer therapy

Freiburg researcher Priscilla Briquez receives ERC Starting Grant for innovative approach to protein engineering

30-Oct-2023 - Jun.-Prof. Dr. Priscilla Briquez, junior professor at the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the Freiburg University Medical Center and member of the Medical Faculty at the University of Freiburg, has received a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant from the European ...

Medical "microrobots" could one day treat bladder disease, other human illnesses

“Imagine if microrobots could perform certain tasks in the body, such as non-invasive surgeries”

30-May-2023 - A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds—and may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body. “Imagine if microrobots could perform ...

Diagnosing cancer in minutes

Identify tumour margins directly in the surgery room: Refined Laser Systems raises €2.7m

30-Jan-2023 - Refined Laser Systems, a dynamic biophotonics company specialised in pioneering laser systems for SRS-microscopy and quantum technology, today announces a Seed funding round of €2.7 million led by High-Tech Gründerfonds and APEX Ventures, along with NRW.BANK, Onsight Ventures and Papst Venture ...

Evonik has sold its stake in Finnish medical technology start-up

Successful venture capital exit

23-Oct-2020 - Evonik Venture Capital has sold its stake in Synoste Oy to Globus Medical. Evonik’s four-and-a-half-year partnership with the Finnish start-up was beneficial to both companies, supporting the development of Synoste’s technology for orthopedics and giving Evonik further insights into the medical ...

Elevated hormone flags liver problems in mice with methylmalonic acidemia

Study findings can immediately be applied to human patients with the disease

11-Dec-2018 - Researchers have discovered that a hormone, fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), is extremely elevated in mice with liver disease that mimics the same condition in patients with methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), a serious genomic disorder. Based on this finding, medical teams treating patients with ...

Cellular 'tuning mechanism' builds elegant eyes

A molecular 'brake' that helps control eye lens development in zebrafish

17-Oct-2018 - How different cells in a multicellular organism acquire their identities remains a fundamental mystery of development. In the eye, for example, the lens contains two cell types - lens epithelial cells and lens fiber cells -- the first of which differentiates into the second as an animal matures. ...

Your brain with a migraine

28-Jun-2018 - When migraine sufferers see the tell-tale squiggly lines, light flashes and blind spots of a migraine aura, they prepare for a migraine. When researchers see the brain image of an aura, they try to figure out what causes it and if there is a way to stop the start of the migraine. Now an ...

Early indicators of bone loss after hip replacement discovered

08-Jun-2018 - Hip replacements relieve pain and restore mobility for hundreds of thousands of patients in the United States each year, but about 40,000 of the more than 280,000 of these procedures performed annually in the U.S. are to replace failed previous hip replacements, at a direct cost of more than $1 ...