The Americas
Scientists have discovered a novel way of separating strong sperm cells from their impotent peers. By using an ingenious microchip method, researchers at Florida Atlantic University College of Engineering and Computer Science have developed a microfluidic chip for sperm sorting. The chip is fast, inexpensive, easy to operate and efficiently isolates healthy sperm directly from [...]
Big Pharma heavyweights Roche and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) are joining forces in two clinical trials to finesse digital pathway algorithms. Data from both trials will be used in cancer diagnosis and to boost personalised healthcare treatment options. Under the pact, Roche Digital Pathology is creating an AI-based image analysis algorithm to help pathologists interpret [...]
Shaving critical minutes off the time it takes to diagnose a heart attack and begin treatment could be as simple as the push of a button. Using a programmable button to page a phlebotomist for a blood draw reduced the time it took to identify patients suffering a heart attack by more than 11 minutes [...]
Biotherapeutics specialist Geneos Therapeutics has clinched US$17m in second-round funding to help its development of tumour neoantigen targeted personalised immunotherapies for liver cancer patients. Led by Flerie Invest and backed by Santé Ventures, Korea Investment Partners – Global Bio Fund and INOVIO Pharmaceuticals, the investment will be used to bolster Geneos' GT-30 Phase Ib/IIa clinical [...]
An AI-enabled tool that can predict when heart attacks will strike has been devised by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. In tests, the tool accurately indicated which patients would experience a heart attack in five years, based on the amount and composition of plaque in arteries that supply blood to the heart. The [...]
A common food source has been converted into a biomanufacturing platform that enables mass production of biologic drugs for common diseases that currently lack effective treatments. Researchers at Lumen Bioscience have pioneered genetic engineering methods to highly express bioactive proteins in spirulina using large-scale cultivation and processing methods appropriate for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. A report on [...]
Live-cell assay systems specialist Axion BioSystems of Atlanta, Georgia has purchased Netherlands-based CytoSMART Technologies for its kinetic live-cell imaging analysis. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition aims to boost Axion's expansion into stem cell research, immuno-oncology cell-based therapies and drug discovery. Non-invasively studying the real-time biology of live cells allows scientists to obtain a more [...]
Scientists have developed an AI-enabled diagnostic assistant that can help identify suspected leprosy lesions. The tool, called AI4Leprosy, works by assessing skin lesion images in combination with patient symptoms. A paper published in the Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows the tech is over 90 per cent accurate in detecting leprosy. According to the authors, the publication provides [...]
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