GE Healthcare to Acquire Diagnostics Company Clarient

General Electric announced Friday that its healthcare unit will acquire molecular diagnostics company Clarient in a deal worth approximately $580 million. The deal will allow GE Healthcare to accelerate its development of new tools to diagnose and characterize cancer. Clarient’s Board of Directors has...

A New Treatment for Macular Degeneration

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Ischemic Stroke: Challenging Market, Huge Need

Time is critical when a patient suffers from a stroke. Approximately 87 percent of strokes are caused by blood clots blocking blood flow to the brain, a condition known as ischemic stroke. The drug tPA can restore normal blood flow, but physicians only have a brief window of opportunity—just a few hours...

Advanced Life Sciences: Addressing Antibiotic Resistance in Infectious Disease Market

Traditional antibiotics are losing their effectiveness against bacterial infections such as community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP), a type of lower respiratory tract infection that is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. An estimated 5.6 million cases of CABP occur annually in the United...

Pressure BioSciences Presents Symposium On Applications of PCT Technology

In August of 2007, Nathan Blow, technology editor for Nature and Nature Methods wrote, “Millions of tissue samples have been collected and archived, but researchers wanting to explore them at the molecular level have found it tough going.” In the 2007 article Blow goes on to discuss the enormous...

It’s a Tanning Spray. No, It’s a Surgical Glue.

A compound found in sunless tanning spray may help heal post-surgical wounds, according to new research found in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Plastic surgeons at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City and biomedical engineers at Cornell University...