Enlitic said it raised a $10 million Series B round from Australian radiology service provider Capitol Health (ASX:CAJ) for its “deep learning” medical diagnostics platform. San Francisco-based Enlitic’s secret sauce is an algorithm designed to synthesize enormous amounts of data, learning about it as it goes. The deal with Capitol Health gives Enlitic access to radiology data […]
Big Data
Study tracks fake stolen data around the world
A new study from data protection company Bitglass tracked planted ‘stolen’ data over 12 days as it was distributed through the Dark Web through peer-networks and other methods. Looking to explore and understand how quickly sensitive data can travel once its been stolen, Bitglass generated 1,568 fake names, social security numbers, credit card numbers, addresses […]
Harvard’s Wyss Inst. spins out bedside data collection biz MediCollector
Harvard’s Wyss Institute said yesterday its bedside data-acquistion software will be commercialized by new startup MediCollector. Developed as part of the Institute’s infant apnea prevention program, the software continuously acquires vital signs, such as breathing activity, from affected premature newborns and analyzes the data with an algorithm to predict apneic episodes, the Wyss Institute said. […]
Innovation in Medtech: harnessing “big data”
Big data – from electronic health records, bio-feedback from wearables and remote monitoring systems that communicate with medical implants – is changing how medical devices are created and designed. MassDevice.com spoke to a pair of researchers at Battelle – David Giles, senior director of medical devices and health analytics and Stephanie Kute, platform lead for the […]
Fruit flies’ sexual behavior as a model of motivation in the brain
By Nancy Fliesler If you have children present, you might want to click out of this post. But if you want to understand motivation, you’ll want to know about the sexual behavior of fruit flies. In the brain, motivational states are nature’s way of matching our behaviors to our needs and priorities. But motivation can […]
Founders buy back Alere Analytics, rebrand as Persivia
The husband-and-wife team that founded the company that eventually became Alere Analytics bought the business back and rebranded it as Persivia. Financial terms were not disclosed. Persivia CEO Mansoor and chief medical officer Dr. Fauzia Khan in 2012 sold DiagnosisOne to Alere, which the next year renamed it as Alere Analytics, before deciding to sell […]
Targeting leukemia with a clinical trial of CAR T-cell therapy
By Tom Ulrich
One of the immune system’s basic jobs is to tell “self” from “non-self.” Our cells carry markers that the immune system uses to recognize them as being part of us. Cells that don’t carry those markers – like bacteria and other pathogens – therefore don’t belong.
Of bugs, genes, development and intestinal biology
FDA science forum to focus on emerging technologies
Sounding out intracranial pressure with a hearing test
Brain tumors, traumatic head injury and a number of brain and nervous system conditions can cause pressure to build up inside the skull. As intracranial pressure (ICP) rises it can compress the brain and result in swelling of the optic nerves, damaging brain tissue and causing irreversible vision loss.