The predicted expansion of beating-heart and minimally-invasive cardiac surgery never materialized, a result, some say, of the lack of safe and effective automated anastomotic tools. Cardica believes it has the answer that can at long last grow this market.
By Stephen Levin
"For want of a nail, a shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the kingdom was lost." In medical...
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During Q2, biopharma merger and acquisition deal value reached $24.6bn and drew in $60.7bn in potential deal value from alliances. Device company M&A values reached $223m, while in vitro diagnostics and research tools players’ M&A activity totaled $802m.
Pharma leaders are shifting from AI pilots to enterprise-scale deployment, favoring external partnerships for efficiency gains while maintaining tight control over sensitive clinical data.
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In Vivo spoke with Edward Ahn, CEO of Medipost, a Korean company that has developed stem cell therapies from cord blood, on how they are working across regulatory markets to provide a novel treatment for degenerative diseases.
