Precision medicine startup Promise Bio announced that it has emerged from stealth with an $8.3 million seed investment.
Awz Ventures led the round with funding from AION Lab's venture seeding track from AstraZeneca and Pfizer, which provided Promise Bio with financial backing to accelerate the development of its platform.
In addition to the funding, the company received a grant from the Israel...
Pupil size in response to light could serve as a biomarker for concussion, according to a study published in Life.
“A concussive injury to the brain is associated with changes in the PLR [pupillary light reflex] that persist over the life span, representing biomarkers that might be used in clinical diagnosis, treatment and decision making,” the study’s authors wrote.
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What if with a simple analysis of your voice, technology could detect the potential of current or future illnesses? The modifications in voice, usually undetectable by human hearing, are now being researched to find early signs of health issues.
Patients affected by Parkinson’s disease for example experience loss of voice volume and begin to speak with haste. In schizophrenia, the words in...
Walking down the halls of the research wing at Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston, it’s hard to miss the bright orange biohazard warnings on the door of nearly every lab — except one. Formed in 2018, the Division of Digital Psychiatry is focused on technology’s role in improving mental health care.
Led by Dr. John Torous, the division’s first digital tool, dubbed mindLamp, is focused on examining "...
This morning FIGUR8, a new digital platform designed to measure and track body movements as a biomarker, launched with a boost of $7.5 million seed funding. The funding was led by P5 Health Ventures with participation from E14 Fund.
Co-created by researchers at MIT Media Lab and Massachusetts General Hospital Sports Science Lab, the technology was developed with the goal of creating a baseline...
While smartphones are yet to replace the eyes as the window into the soul, there is a budding conversation around the technology serving as window into an individual’s wellbeing. Biomarkers from smartphones, such as GPS, usage and physical activity, are now being used by providers and employers as an indicator of mental health.
Patients' willingness to share passive smartphone data varies...
Pharma companies are increasingly embracing the use of wearables and other connected devices to streamline and improve data collection in clinical trials. But for all the advantages these devices might have, there also challenges — especially when it comes to data standardization.
This week at BIO 2018, Dr. Daniel Karlin, Pfizer’s head of clinical, informatics, regulatory strategy, digital...
The prospect of wireless-enabled implants that ensure timely and correct dosages of medicine for those unable to care for themselves is fast approaching clinical reality but according to some researchers, the safety and security of these remote intelligent drug delivery systems (RIDDS) still need to be worked out. YanYan Wang and Carey Thaldorf at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando,...
