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...His Illinois-based start-up builds tools to help surgeons navigate spinal instruments and implants during operations and attracted the biggest US deal over the past six weeks with an $83mn funding round...
...Ball agrees, pointing to early uses such as Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeons using augmented reality to perform spinal surgery, the US army buying Microsoft’s AR headsets and Tesla creating a simulation...
...The infection causes 145 excess cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome per 10m people, and 123 extra events of encephalitis meningitis and myelitis, inflammations of the brain and spinal cord....
...criticised Biogen for the price it assigned to the drug, called aducanumab, adding to years of criticism levied at the company over the high cost of its medicines for conditions including multiple sclerosis and spinal...
...One person who received the vaccine developed transverse myelitis — inflammation along the spinal cord — which might be related to the inoculation and another had a high fever but both are recovering....
...Analysts with UBS warned in January that the spinal surgery market was at risk of slowing....
...Biogen, the neuroscience-focused biotech company, raised full-year guidance and beat earnings and revenue expectations, driven by sales of drugs for multiple sclerosis and the serious genetic disease spinal...
...In February, Biogen received approval in China for Spinraza to treat the most common form of spinal muscular atrophy....
...Last month US drug regulators approved Zolgensma, a gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy, which Novartis priced at $2.1m, making it the most expensive drug in the world....
...Mr Narasimhan has splashed out on expensive bolt-on acquisitions to bolster its portfolio of new treatments, including almost $9bn a year ago on AveXis, a US specialist in spinal muscular atrophy....
...At that time, he himself was suffering from a spinal disorder that meant he could only write while lying belly-down on his bed. He persisted. Yan first took to writing to make money, he tells me....
...Maxwell’s main products, ultracapacitors, are important components in regenerative braking systems, which recover part of a vehicle’s kinetic energy when it slows and so help to extend battery life....
...Late on Friday, we revealed that S&N had approached US-based NuVasive about a takeover of the maker of medical instruments used in spinal surgery....
...The deal involved the $232m sale of Kendle International to INC Research....
...Since taking over as Novartis CEO in February, Mr Narasimhan has announced the GSK transaction and spent $8.7bn buying AveXis, a US specialist in spinal muscular atrophy, a childhood wasting disease....
...In Asia, a number of crypto-focused funds have recently emerged, including Kinetic Capital, which invests in blockchain technologies....
...Instead, the researchers are looking to intervene outside the brain and spinal cord in the “peripheral nervous system”, which influences the performance of every living organ — and plays a role in many chronic...
...Another option is spinal muscular atrophy, the “leading genetic cause of death in infants,” and is linked to a gene carried by 1 in 50 Americans. 3) Keep innovating: There are lots of genetic diseases...
...The technology has attracted overseas interest with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri partnering with Titomic this week to explore using its “kinetic fusion” 3D printing technology at its shipyards....
...would like the company to expand into, he only occasionally buys small businesses — including the deal last year for Breton Hill, a Canadian quantitative investment fund managing $2bn, and adding Horizon Kinetics...
...large biotech company focused on neuroscience, says the valuations reflect what has been a “stellar” year for biology, citing advances in treating Huntington’s disease, migraine, multiple sclerosis and spinal...
...The company said the increase from previous guidance “is primarily related to faster than anticipated adoption of Spinraza to treat to patients with spinal muscular atrophy in the US”....
...Steven Bregman, co-founder of New York-based investment advisory firm Horizon Kinetics, has described the shift toward passive investing as “the greatest bubble ever”....
...Steven Bregman, co-founder of Horizon Kinetics, the investment adviser, highlights that just the top five holdings in the Nasdaq 100 — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook — comprise 41 per cent...
...Somewhat ironically, Allergan itself used the IPR process last year to successfully invalidate a patent held by a Canadian group that covered the use of Botox to treat spinal compression injuries....
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