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 […]
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
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.