mySugr Importer (English) from mySugr on Vimeo. mySugr is a diabetes app developer that’s striving to set itself apart from other direct-to-consumer mobile health companies for chronic conditions. Its apps are intended to strike a balance between relevant and important information for its users with colorful graphics and a gaming component. With a $4.8 million […]
Transatlantic antibiotics maker Nabriva Therapeutics just raised an enormous swath of cash – it just closed a $120 million Series B round to treat serious and highly resistant bacterial infections. It’s validation for a largely underused class of antibiotics – pleuromutilins – and a step in the direction to address global antibiotic resistance. The first, $50 million tranche […]
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
We can now grow complex human brain tissue in a test tube. Scientists in Vienna, Austria, used a method that allows pluripotent stem cells to develop into mini-brains (i.e., cerebral organoids) that even have several distinct brain regions, according to an article in this issue of Nature. While this year has seen 3-D printed miniature […]
Austria-based Apeiron Biologics has acquired an option to license several cancer-treating drug candidates from Cleveland Clinic for an unspecified amount.