Research
An international research team has constructed computational disease models of altered gene interactions across many cell types at different time points. The researchers’ long-term goal is to develop such computational models into 'digital twins' of individual patients’ diseases. Such medical digital twins might be used to tailor medication so that each patient could be treated [...]
New research from the US has revealed new insight into how the virus responsible for Covid-19 can lead to long-term pain. The research, published in Experimental Biology, also points to a potential therapy for Covid-related pain. “A significant number of people suffering from long COVID experience sensory abnormalities, including various forms of pain,” said Randal [...]
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 [...]
Israeli medical devices firm Alpha Tau Medical has lured Medstrada CEO Ruth Alon to its c-suite. The Nasdaq-listed developer of alpha-radiation cancer therapy believes the seasoned senior executive - with stints in venture capital and Silicon Valley consulting - will bring her extensive financial and strategic operations expertise to bear on the Tel Aviv-based firm. [...]
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 [...]
The life sciences sector’s failure to adequately provide ‘connected health’ products and services to patients will prove a boon to Big Tech, according to a new report. Capgemini’s research reveals that, despite high ambitions, only a few life sciences organisations have the digital, technical and collaborative abilities to realise the potential of connected health. And less [...]
Neuroscience research has received a bounty over the past decade thanks to multidisciplinary collaboration and the dividends of digitalisation, say leading scientists in the field. Fifteen experts at the European Human Brain Project (HBP) claim the group is the first that 'systematically connects brain research, medicine and information technologies'. The HBP has brought together communities [...]
