Zeit Medical, which makes an early warning system for strokes during sleep, has raised $2 million in a seed round just after leaving Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort. The company’s work suggests the brain-monitoring headband could save lives by alerting people to possible strokes hours before they might otherwise be noticed, and the new funding […]
ミトコンドリアに次ぐ新たな細菌を「人工的に細胞内に共生させる」研究が進行中 – ナゾロジー
Credit:Canva 全ての画像を見る 細胞の中に私たちを癒す共生細菌を飼えるようです。 アメリカのミシガン州立大学（MSU）で行われた研究によれば、遺伝子操作された細菌をマウスの免疫細胞の中で安定的に保持し、細胞の行動や運命を変化させることに成功した、とのこと。 共生細菌の遺伝子を、免疫細胞の追加の制御機構に…
Sweden to give 12-15 year olds Pfizer vaccine, rejects Moderna
The European Medicines Agency approved the use of Comirnaty in May, while Spikevax was given the nod for children over 12 in JulySTOCKHOLM: Sweden’s Public Health Agency said on Monday it recommended the use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s , Comirnaty vaccine aga…
胃の内壁に針を刺す！？薬を運ぶ経口カプセル MITが開発
研究者たちは、病気や疾患と闘うために、モノクローナル抗体と呼ばれるものの開発に取り組んでいます。モノクローナル抗体は、人体の免疫システムを模倣して作られたタンパク質です。がんや自己免疫疾患など、さまざまな病気と闘うために […]
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Southeast Asia “omnichannel” health startup Doctor Anywhere gets $88M SGD
Doctor Anywhere, a startup that takes an “omnichannel” approach to healthcare, announced today it has raised $88 million SGD (about $65.7 million USD) in Series C funding. The round was led by Asia Partners, with participation from Novo Holdings, Philips and OSK-SBI Partners. It also included returning investors EDBI, Square Peg, IHH Healthcare, Kamet Capital […]
Luminate aims to make hair loss from chemotherapy a thing of the past
Hair loss resulting from chemotherapy is one of the most recognizable side effects in all of medicine, and for many is an unwanted public announcement of their condition and treatment. Luminate Medical may have a solution in a medical wearable that prevents the chemical cocktail from tainting hair follicles, preventing the worst of the loss […]
Zeit’s early warning wearable for sleep strokes could save hours and lives
Those at risk are always vigilant for the signs of a stroke in progress, but no one can be vigilant when they’re sleeping, meaning thousands of people suffer “wake-up strokes” that are only identified hours after the fact. Zeit Medical’s brain-monitoring wearable could help raise the alarm and get people to the hospital fast enough […]
“You’ll thank me someday …”
Some patients have found themselves suddenly treated like criminals because of their dogs’ medications, their past sexual abuse, and seeing doctors a long way away from their house. Why?
“A sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm has become central to h…
a heart pump is a life-sustaining medical device
Thousands of Patients Were Implanted With Heart Pumps That the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous. (ProPublica, Aug. 5, 2021) As HeartWare and Medtronic [which acquired HeartWare in 2016] failed inspection after inspection and reports of device-related deaths…
A magnetic helmet shrunk a deadly tumor in its first test
We’ve seen helmets and AI that can spot brain tumors, but a new hard hat can actually treat them, too. Researchers used a helmet that generates a magnetic field to shrink a deadly tumor by a third.