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Mologic to become ‘social enterprise’ after acquisition by social impact funders

A group of philanthropic funds and investors led by the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has launched Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise that will seek to expand access to affordable state-of-the-art medical technology through decentralized research, development, and manufacturing in and for the Global […]

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CN Bio licenses human gut microbiome modelling tool from MIT and Northeastern University

CN Bio, a leading Organ-on-a-chip Company (OOC) that designs and manufactures singleand multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), has secured the licensing rights to a novel tool for modelling the gut microbiome, GuMI, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Northeastern University.

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Biotium launches mounting media with far-red nuclear counterstain and autofluorescence quenching reagent

Biotium, a leading provider of reagents for immunofluorescence microscopy, is significantly expanding its line of antifade wet-set and hardset EverBrite Mounting

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BioMed X launches two new research groups in autoimmunity and drug delivery in collaboration with Janssen

German independent research institute BioMed X has started two new research projects with Janssen Research & Development, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

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Amgen to acquire Teneobio for $900m

Amgen will acquire Teneobio, a privately held, clinical stage biotechnology company developing a new class of biologics called Human Heavy-Chain Antibodies.

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Offer your clinicians one of the most important critical care assays plasma volume

Plasma volume status is vital in testing critically ill patients but is extremely difficult and costly to obtain, particularly as a POC test. Plasma volume assessment affects almost every aspect of a patient’s care, including giving IV fluids, diuresing, starting vasopressors, initiating renal replacement therapy, deciding on transfusion requirements and intubation and extubation.1,2

10th MEDICA Start-up Competition

All start-ups that want to participate in this year’s 10th MEDICA Start-up Competition by submitting innovations can send in their application free of charge until 22 September 2021. For more information about the competition, visit: https://www.medica-tradefair.com/mac2

The epicentre of the trade fair

In addition to these highlights, a programme of several on-stage events at the epicentre of the trade fair will also be on offer. Holders of the relevant tickets can follow the talks and discussions simultaneously via livestreams on the industry portals MEDICA.de and COMPAMED.de.

This year’s MEDICA, the world’s largest medical fair, and COMPAMED the event for medical technology suppliers

The event organisers say decision-makers of the healthcare industry have committed to participating on site. In a recent survey of several thousand MEDICA and COMPAMED visitors from previous years, three quarters stated that they intend to attend this year’s trade fairs.

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30 years of DiaSys Diagnostic Systems

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of DiaSys Diagnostics Systems. CLI chatted to Dr Günther Gorka, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, about the company’s story and innovations.