FDA announced this week that it’s granted an emergency use authorization for Mayo Clinic’s real-time polymerase chain reaction test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The Rochester, Minn.–based health provider is already running thousands of coronavirus tests daily — with help from diagnostic processors from Roche Diagnostics, that run the Roche Cobas SARS-CoV-2 test. […]
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How glass tubing supports Mayo Clinic innovation
At the Mayo Clinic Glass Shop, scientific glassblowing creates glass tubing and apparatuses for cardiac, transplantation and tissue perfusion research — and more recently, to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Steve Anderson is one of only two scientific glassblowers in Minnesota. As a senior scientific glassblower at Mayo Clinic, he has developed glass aneurysm models, […]
COVID-19 test development surges with pandemic
Companies around the world are racing to develop and distribute tests for COVID-19 to laboratories and to market other products and services they say can help patients and healthcare providers cope with the pandemic. On March 13, the FDA gave Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) emergency use authorization (EUA) for a diagnostic test that certain U.S. laboratories […]
Mayo Clinic develops coronavirus test with results in 24 hours
Mayo Clinic announced that it has developed a test to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The individuals undergoing the Mayo Clinic test could receive their results within 24 hours, according to Mayo Clinic’s clinical virology laboratory director Matthew Binnicker. That compares with the several days to a week patients have been waiting for […]
Report: Mayo Clinic to try Corindus telestenting
Mayo Clinic researchers this spring plan to try out Corindus’ telestenting technology — which Mayo officials think could improve care in the rural hospitals in their network, according to a report in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. Corindus told MassDevice‘s sister site Medical Design & Outsourcing in 2018 that the company had a partnership with […]
Mayo Clinic, W.L. Gore team up on stem cell therapy treatments
Mayo Clinic and W. L. Gore & Associates have announced a partnership to develop implantable cell therapies to treat debilitating conditions with no cure. The for-profit company, Avobis Bio, will combine a patient’s own stem cells with bioabsorbable scaffolds to stimulate the healing of perianal fistulas, painful tunneling wounds that affect patients with Crohn’s disease. […]
BioSig signs licensing agreements with Mayo Clinic
BioSig Technologies (NSDQ:BSGM) announced today that it agreed to three new patent and know-how license agreements with the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. Under the agreements, BioSig plans to establish a new product pipeline for its Pure EP system for acquiring, digitizing, measuring, displaying and storing electrocardiographic and intracardiac signals for patients undergoing electrophysiology […]
BioSig opens new office in Rochester, Minn.
BioSig Technologies (NSDQ:BSGM) said yesterday that it is opening a technology development office in Rochester, Minn., in collaboration with Mayo Clinic. Westport, Conn.-based BioSig said its new office will serve as an R&D and product development hub in support of the projects developed through its strategic collaboration with Mayo Clinic and Mayo Ventures. Mayo Clinic, having […]
6 medtech innovations out of Mayo Clinic you need to know
The Mayo Clinic over the past century has pioneered everything from heart-lung machines to patient monitoring to high-speed CT scanning. As one of the most respected nonprofit academic medical centers in the world, the Mayo Clinic continues to innovate. A major center of innovation at the Rochester, Minn.–based practice is its Division of Engineering, where […]
BioSig inks deal with Mayo Clinic
BioSig Technologies (NSDQ:BSGM) said yesterday that it signed a new licensing agreement with Mayo Clinic to further its Pure EP system, less than two months after the Mayo Clinic invested $1 million in BioSig’s first product. Westport, Conn.-based BioSig and the Rochester, Minn.-based clinic inked a 10-year strategic partnership agreement for the Pure EP system’s […]
New building on the way for innovation campus near Mayo Clinic
Developer M.A. Mortenson Co. has filed plans for a five-story, 121,295-square-foot Two Discovery Square — the second building for the innovation campus next to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., the Rochester Post Bulletin reports. Mortenson and the Destination Medical Center project office didn’t provide additional details to the newspaper. The original roughly 90,000-square-foot One Discovery […]