BioSpace News Archive

Kerrisdale Capital, a private investment manager, has published a new report explaining its short position in CareDx, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNA), a $1.7bn diagnostics company that develops tests for transplant recipients and whose market value is based primarily on AlloSure, a non-invasive test meant to detect kidney rejection

The Microbiome Therapeutics Innovation Group (MTIG) announced today the addition of Seed Health to its coalition of companies leading the research and development of FDA-approved microbiome therapeutics and microbiome-based products

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) has awarded MDA Venture Philanthropy (MVP) funding totaling $389,000 over two years to Rachelle H. Crosbie, PhD, professor and chair of Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Today GEMoaB GmbH, a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on discovery, development, manufacturing and commercialization of next generation immunotherapies for hard-to-treat cancers, announced the appointment of Michael Pehl as its new CEO

Females with bladder cancer are more likely than their male counterparts to experience a greater number of symptoms and challenges with coping, less support and, as a result, lower perceptions of quality of life.

Research reported today at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2019 in Los Angeles identified a number of differences in the progression and risk of Alzheimer’s disease between women and men, including newly identified sex-specific risk genes and contrasting presentation of Alzheimer’s biology in the brain.

Echosens, a high-technology company offering the FibroScan family of products, today announces the release of its white paper “The Economic Tsunami of Liver Disease,” articulating how a disease once considered uncommon in the 1980s is now a major epidemic.

The rate of violence in healthcare is five times greater than private industry on average; bill requires violence prevention programs

TrialCard Incorporated, an industry leader in access, affordability, adherence, and engagement solutions for patients and healthcare providers, today announced the appointment of Karen L. Russell as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately

Real-time fall detection using SafelyYou’s artificial intelligence-enabled video recording reduced the need for emergency services by a staggering 80% in dementia care facilities, according to research results published in the American Journal of Managed Care