Biotechnology

Clinical trial results of an investigational, non-invasive medical device for the treatment of spasticity in patients having experienced a stroke. Trans-spinal direct current stimulation and peripheral nerve direct current stimulation significantly reduced upper limb spasticity in participants who experienced a stroke.

The concept of using cell culture to grow meat products has drawn much hype in recent years, with cultured meat companies claiming they could produce food products identical to traditional meat at a fraction of the cost and environmental impact. This article introduces cultured meat, describing the underlying science, technology and the main challenges associated with cultured meat.

FemPulse Corporation, a private, clinical-stage bioelectronic medicine company developing a novel therapy for the personalized treatment of overactive bladder in women, announced that the first participant has been enrolled in the Company's clinical trial evaluating physiological responses to therapy delivered with the FemPulse System.

Cala Health will use the funds to introduce a breakthrough therapy for hand tremors in people with essential tremor, to the market as well as expand its therapeutic pipeline.

The MedTech Forum 2019 took place on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th May 2019 in Paris, France. It was preceded on Tuesday 14th May 2019 by the fifth annual Start-Up Innovantes du Dispositif Medical event, which enables French MedTech start-ups to showcase their technology. This report was compiled by IDTechEx analysts Ivan De Backer and James Hayward who both attended the events.

Researchers have designed an ingestible capsule that can be controlled using Bluetooth wireless technology. The capsule, which can be customized to deliver drugs, sense environmental conditions, or both, can reside in the stomach for at least a month, transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user's smartphone.

Safety testing of a pioneering ultrasound technique that could delay the effects of dementia will begin in Brisbane late next year.

Physicians have, for the first time, induced a sense of smell in humans by using electrodes in the nose to stimulate nerves in the olfactory bulb, a structure in the brain where smell information from the nose is processed and sent to deeper regions of brain.

Researchers have succeeded in constructing protein nanotubes from tiny scaffolds made by cross-linking of engineered protein crystals. The achievement could accelerate the development of artificial enzymes, nano-sized carriers and delivery systems for a host of biomedical and biotechnological applications.