Therapy

The transformative impact of Generative AI on life sciences 

On average, it takes about seven years to develop a new drug and bring it to market. For ambitious life science businesses, Generative AI’s ability to generate insights and content in a fraction of the time of a human means wiping months, or even...

What technology will make the PM’s ‘Smoke-free’ generation possible and what technology may prevent the objective? 

In October 2023, UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced the new legislation to create a smoke-free generation.  The legislation will make it an offence to sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009. In effect, the law will stop...

LiliumX rebrands as Valink Therapeutics after securing US$7.8 million investment 

LiliumX, an innovative BioTech start-up focused on the development of next-generation antibody-based therapeutics, has unveiled its new brand name, and welcomed three top industry leaders to the business, after securing US$7.8 million in...

M42 announces new clinical LLM to transform the future of AI in healthcare 

M42, a global tech-enabled healthcare network, has unveiled an advancement in healthcare technology with the launch of Med42, a new open-access Clinical Large Language Model (LLM). The 70 billion parameter, generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) model is...

New science-backed health score launched to support employee wellbeing 

The Health and Wellbeing Quotient, (HAWQ) has launched a personalised corporate wellbeing offering, proven to boost employee wellbeing, the HAWQ Score. When scores are shared 1-2-1 and group workshops on topics such as sleep, nutrition and personalised...

Redefining paediatric burn recovery with 3D scanning  

Artec 3D has collaborated with Romans Ferrari, a paediatric rehabilitation facility, to revolutionise the medical process for children who have suffered facial burns. Using Artec’s 3D scanners, medical professionals are now able to create highly...

Strivr expands VR content library with mental health & well-being experiences

Strivr, a platform for enterprise-scale Virtual Reality (VR) solutions, has announced the evolution of its offering to accelerate content and solution capabilities using Generative AI (GenAI) for enhanced storyline development, animation and asset creation,...

JOGO Health receives FDA’s Breakthrough Device Designation for lower back pain product

JOGO Health, a value-based virtual care company that leverages proprietary digital interventions to provide comprehensive rehabilitation for chronic pain and neuromuscular conditions, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted...

MHRA trailing stem cell robot that could transform the availability of cell therapies

An innovative new robot that grows stem cells – the CellQualiaIntelligent Cell Processing System – is being trialled by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). This robotic system has the potential to bring safer and more...

Report identifies trends in gene therapy poised to impact healthcare stakeholders

Clarivate, a global leader in connecting people and organisations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, has announced the release of its new report, Making gene therapy work for patients, payers, regulators and developers: Five key...

Headspace Health’s offering and how it has helped users across the globe 

It’s no secret that mental health services are strained to their limit. As such, there has been an increase in people taking matters into their own hands and using apps, like Headspace, to help. Simon Miller – International Partnerships Lead,...

Gene therapy boosts ‘cold shock protein’ in the brain without cooling mice against neurodegenerative disease

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Freie Universität Berlin are exploring how gene therapy and the cold shock protein can help significantly reduce neurodegenerative diseases in humans. We hear more below… Scientists in Cambridge and...