Saturday, July 27, 2024
Florida-based surgical robotics company Medical Microinstruments, Inc. (MMI) has raised $110 million in Series C funding for microsurgery innovation, which is to be used to support the commercialisation of the company’s Symani® Surgical System and to accelerate “advanced technology capabilities” across the globe. Mark Toland, CEO, said that the support […]
The Whitehouse has issued a statement declaring its commitment to improving cancer care by ensuring electronic health records (EHRs) contain all of the information required for doctors to provide excellent patient care. The adoption of the United States Core Data for Interoperability Plus Cancer (USCDI+ Cancer) will see the introduction […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced the launch of the new Cancer Screening Research Network which will focus on evaluating emerging technologies for cancer screening, and shared plans to launch a pilot study to establish “the feasibility of using multi-cancer detection tests in future randomized controlled trials”. This […]
Scientists from Mayo Clinic, USA, have been utilising reanalysing of negative whole-exome/genome data (RENEW) to diagnose rare genetic disorders. RENEW tracks the discovery of “disease-causing genetic variants” across the globe, with findings being uploaded to the system on a three-monthly basis. These findings can then be compared to the clinic’s […]
