Assessing Heart Function and Fluid Status with Cardiac Scales: Interview with John Lipman, CEO, and Corey Centen, Founder, Bodyport | Medgadget
Bodyport, a medtech company based in San Francisco, developed the Bodyport Cardiac Scale, a set of weighing scales that can non-invasively assess fluid status and heart function. The scales can detect these signals through the feet when a patient steps onto the device.
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Continue Reading »AI-Powered Robot Accelerates Medical Research | Medgadget
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have developed an AI-powered robotic system that can perform laboratory experiments in regenerative medicine, learn from the results, and perform iterative rounds of experimentation to achieve a certain goal. In a proof-of-principle, the researchers set the robot the task of optimizing cell culture conditions to create a maximal number of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells. The robot improved the percentage of stem cells within a culture that differentiated into RPE cells from 50% to approximately 90% over six months of experimentation, and the researchers estimate that it would have taken humans approximately 2.5 years to achieve the same thing.
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Continue Reading »Should Medtech Get First Dibs on Semiconductors?
An industry trade association is calling for global measures regarding the allocation of semiconductors during an ongoing chip shortage.
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Continue Reading »After Regulatory Bumps, Apex Wins FDA Nod Renuvion
The product was subject to two FDA consumer warnings for use in medical aesthetics, but now sees clearance for neck and chin skin tightening.
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Continue Reading »First IVDR for Class D Medical Device
TÜV SÜD Product Service, a notified body, issued the first IVDR certificate for a new device in risk class D produced by Roche Diagnostics.
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Continue Reading »U.S. House Approves New Federal Biomedical Agency to ‘Make the Impossible Possible’
In an overwhelming vote of support, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the creation of a new department within the National Institutes of Health that is focused on biomedical innovation.
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Continue Reading »Genetic screening algorithm can estimate a person’s risk of developing chronic kidney disease
A new algorithm developed by researchers at Columbia University can analyze thousands of variants across the genome and estimate a person’s risk of developing chronic kidney disease-;and it works in people of African, Asian, European, and LatinX descent.
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Continue Reading »Proscia’s Cocentriq Scores IVDR Certification
This new IVDR regulatory framework replaces the IVD Directive, under which Proscia’s Concentriq Dx also received a CE mark.
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Continue Reading »ProtonDx Obtains CE-IVD Mark for Dragonfly System
The portable platform supports diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, influenza B, respiratory syncytial virus, and human rhinovirus in a single test.
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Continue Reading »Outset Medical pauses at-home dialysis shipments, sending stock to all-time low
After kicking off the year by shipping out a record number of its Tablo hemodialysis systems for at-home users, Outset Medical has brought those sales to a screeching halt.
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