Digital therapeutics have potential but commercial success unproven
Software can be a medical device. Can it also be a drug?
Ablative Solutions has a fight on its hands in renal denervation
Alcohol kills – and in this case, that could be a good thing.
Vizai hopes Medtronic deal will boost sales of its tech – and vice versa
Medtronic decides that Solitaire is best played with a partner.
Probiodrug changes its name but remembers its roots
Probiodrug changes its name to Vivoryon and expands its focus to include oncology, but insists that it is still first and foremost an Alzheimer’s company.
Emmaus tries to move forwards by reversing
The company insists that its sickle cell disease therapy Endari still has a future, despite questionable efficacy and the approach of new treatments.
Liquid biopsies: the future of cancer diagnosis?
Blood tests could be faster and cheaper than tissue biopsies, but a Thermo Fisher exec argues they are likely to be more of an add-on technique.
MD Start bucks the trend for later-stage medtech investing
Backed by big medtech including Medtronic, MD Start aims not just to incubate start-ups but to create new device companies from scratch.
Thrive emerges with cash, a cancer blood test, and a plan
A new player has entered the liquid biopsy game.
Who will capitalise on CAR-T at last? Not big pharma, says Tmunity
While praising Novartis for kickstarting the CAR-T revolution, the chief exec of Tmunity has no doubt where cell therapy’s development engine really lies.
