The Hong Kong scientist who invented a simple blood test to show pregnant women if their babies have Down syndrome is now testing a similar technology for cancer.
Yuk Ming “Dennis” Lo says screening for signs of cancer from a simple blood draw could cost as little as $1,000. The test works by studying DNA released into a person’s bloodstream by dying tumor cells.
The idea is to create a cheap screening test that people might get annually at a doctor’s office to spot a tumor at its earliest stage, when it’s more easily treated. “It took 13 years to develop the prenatal tests, but the path was untrodden,” says Lo, who is based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Cancer will take a shorter time.”
Microsoft released a new fitness band today with an ambitious goal of creating a super-smart wellness coach. On top of the normal sensors for tracking steps and sleep, Microsoft’s Health platform will crunch the data on activity to see how behaviors throughout the day impact a user’s health.
According to CB Insights data, digital health and health IT companies racked up $2.2 billion in funding through the first half of 2014. And as digital health startups pulled in record funding, corporate investors from Google to Merck to BlueCross BlueShield are actively getting into the fray.
This report takes an in-depth look at corporate investments into digital health & health IT space. Specifically, it looks at financing, stage, geography trends to the space. All of the corporate investment data covered is available on the CB Insights venture capital database.
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Durante los días 30 de octubre a 4 de noviembre se celebra en Tokio la Feria Jimtofde Máquina Herramienta. Fagor Automation estará presente en la misma a través de su distribuidor oficial Captain Industries Inc. Captain, proveedor de componentes para el sector de Máquina Herramienta, es una empresa con más de 40 años de experiencia en el sector y que desde 2012 representa a Fagor Automation en el país del sol naciente.
El alto nivel de los mentores que contribuyen al desarrollo de las startups participantes en DIG EAT ALL también es único y excepcional. En esta primera edición que acaba de clausurar, altos ejecutivos de las mayores multinacionales del sector como Nestlé, Unilever, PepsiCo y Pernod Ricard procedentes de Ginebra, París, Londres y Barcelona impulsaron el desarrollo de las startups participantes gracias a sus charlas y sesiones de mentoring. Lo mismo hicieron los emprendedores más disruptivos del sector, como el fundador de La Fourchette (startup francesa recientemente adquirida por Trip Advisor) o el fundador de Kitchensurfing (startup americana que ha logrado levantar 20 millones de dólares en apenas dos años).
One of the great challenges of neuroscience is to understand the short-term working memory in the human brain. At the same time, computer scientists would dearly love to reproduce the same kind of memory in silico.
HealthBeat 2014 is behind us, but I’d wager that many of us who were in attendance are still thinking about some of the central themes discussed. Several of them kept coming up in the sessions and in conversations in the hallways.
Our health system is broken; everybody knows that. Some of the discussion at HealthBeat centered on identifying the real problems, and some of it focused on new technology and tactics for fixing the problems.
