Foldax Announces Successful First Human Use of Tria Biopolymer Mitral Heart Valve

Foldax has announced that it has successfully performed the first-in-man Tria Mitral Valve implant. This is another milestone for the Tria LifePolymer valve platform. Strategically, the mitral valve addresses an unmet global need for a more durable mitral valve that doesn’t require lifetime anticoagulants. This is especially important in the many areas where rheumatic fever […]

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Xenter, Inc. Continues Rapid Expansion with Appointment of Scott Heuler, SVP of Global Sales and Marketing, and Gary Baldwin as CTO

On the heels of last week’s announcement of the closing of its $12M Series A offering, Xenter, Inc. has announced the appointment of Scott Heuler as Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing and Gary Baldwin as Chief Technology Officer in its Hospital Technologies business unit. Xenter is innovating new wireless technologies and techniques for […]

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Transit Scientific’s XO Score Scoring Sheath Platform Wins Medical Design Award

Transit Scientific”s XO Score Scoring Sheath Platform has been named a winner in the 2021 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA). The MDEA is a premier design competition in the medtech industry, recognizing significant achievements in medical product design and engineering that improve the quality of healthcare delivery and accessibility. Recently, the company received European CE Mark […]

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Transit Scientific’s Cutting-Edge Scoring Sheath Platform Earns CE Mark Approval

Transit Scientific has announced that its XO Score® Scoring Sheath Platform has received CE Mark clearance in the European Union for treatment of peripheral artery disease and end stage renal disease. Last year, the company announced FDA clearance for the device. We’ve been thrilled to see the effective low-pressure dilatation and luminal gain achieved using our […]

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Clene Nanomedicne Receives Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award

Clene Inc. announced on Monday that the company received a Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award from the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) to accelerate the preclinical development of CNM-Au8, a bioenergetic nanocatalyst, for treatment of neuronal aging-related deficits and Alzheimer’s disease. The international award will fund preclinical study of CNM-Au8 nanocatalysis for the improvement of human health […]

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ARUP Announces Partnership with TellBio for Use of TellBio’s Novel Circulating Tumor Cells Technology

ARUP Laboratories on May 10 announced it has signed a strategic agreement with Massachusetts-based TellBio Inc. to use the company’s TellDx circulating tumor cells (CTCs) technology in several research applications. ARUP has also invested in TellBio as part of the startup’s series A financing round. Other funding partners include Crocker Ventures, Genetron Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ: […]

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SINTX Technologies Files Multiple New U.S. and International Patent Applications

This week SINTX Technoloiges announced multiple U.S. and international patent applications for development of new technologies utilizing the company’s silicon nitride. “The innovative application of SINTX’s silicon nitride promises new tools to improve our public health response to COVID-19 and other viruses,” said Kelvyn Cullimore, president and CEO of BioUtah. SINTX has found that its […]

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U.S. Study of DiscGenics IDCT Achieves One-Year Follow-Up Milestone

DiscGenics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing regenerative cell-based therapies that alleviate pain and restore function in patients with degenerative diseases of the spine,  has completed enrollment in its Japanese safety study of Injectable Discogenic Cell Therapy (IDCT) for lumbar disc degeneration, a major cause of chronic low back pain. This Japanese 38-subject […]

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