Australian molecular diagnostics startup: Genetic Signatures has raised US $25 million, it said last week.
The participating investors in the financing were Regal Funds Management, Perennial Value Management, Asia Union Investments, and Karst Peak Capital, a spokesman for Genetic Signatures said. Asia Union Investments is the family office of Genetic Signaures majority holder and Cofounder Chris A...
Biomedical researchers from California Institute Of Technology or Caltech have developed an ultrasensitive wearable sweat sensor that can monitor various metabolites and nutrients in the human body. Blood tests are a tried-and-true way of evaluating what is going on with your body, but the discomfort is unavoidable.
In a new research paper, biomedical engineers led by Dr Wei Gao, assistant...
These are some of the applications of a new wireless skin patch developed by Northwestern University that can be used in many medical and health applications:
-The stick-on device makes it possible to share a virtual touch on social media, feel strikes from a video game, and detect pressure on a prosthetic
-A mother smiles at her toddler via a live video feed, then runs her fingers a...
Researchers from University Of Winconsin-Madison have developed a prototype hat that emits electrical pulses to the scalp to help stimulate hair on patients suffering from male baldness.
In their studies of which the findings were published in the Journal Of American Chemical Society, an electric patch made hairless mice grow fur and may reverse balding in men when fitted inside a specially desig...
Cancer Diagnostics Startup, Lucence announced on Tuesday the closing of its Series A financing round, bringing in US $20 million.
Tan Min-Han CEO and Medical Director Lucence Diagnostics
Investors IHH Healthcare led the round and was joined by SGInnovate and existing investors Temasek Holdings subsidiary Heliconia Capital, Lim Kaling, Koh Boon Hwee, and others. Lucence said the funding wi...
Diagnostics Startup Rheonix said that it has filed its first 501(k) to seek clearance for a molecular test system from the US Food and Drug Administration. The Ithaca, New York-based diagnostics startup is seeking authorization to market its PCR-based system along with a triplex test for a sexually transmitted infections.
The startup is seeking clearance for its MDx test system, called th...
One of the leading Universities in the Southern Hemisphere, University Of New South Wales, Sydney has developed a simple to use app for testing for dementia among elderly merely by talking into a smartphone thanks to speech-analyzing technology developed by its engineers.
The new app uses machine learning technology to look at paralinguistic features of a person's speech such as proso...
A new fertility tech startup, Mojo has announced that it has secured a US$ 2 million seed funding led by Nordic seed fund Inventure,Doberman and Privilege Ventures (an investor in Ava), plus a number of angel investors including Josefin Landgard (founder and ex-CEO of Kry) and Hampus Jakobsson (venture partner at BlueYard, BA in Clue & Kind.app).
Co-fou...
Apple is moving towards installing smart technology into clothing as part of a new venture to hit the healthcare industry with its latest filing of a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Smart Clothing” which would be able to connect with other Apple devices such as the Apple Watch to track health vitals. The patent image filed in 2018 and publish...
Apple has acquired Tueo Health, a start-up, which secured US$ 1.1 million seed funding in 2017 and was focused in developing a system to help parents monitor asthma symptoms in sleeping children. How much Apple paid for Tueo Health was not disclosed.
Tueo Health was founded by Brownyn Harris who is also the CEO. While its COO is Anura Patil.
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