Life Sciences

Tech248 Member MatchRX Revolutionizing Surplus Prescription Drug Industry

ROYAL OAK - Check out this cool Tech248 member company MatchRX a private web-based inter-pharmacy marketplace to buy and sell small quantities of non-controlled, non-expired overstocked prescription drugs and drugs in short supply to satisfy a specific patient need or declared public health emergency. Tech248 Co-Found Irene Spanos interviews CEO John Kello. MatchRX maintains safe,

By |2017-09-24T18:31:27-04:00September 24th, 2017|Life Sciences, M2 TechCast, Podcasts|

Making Choices Michigan Becomes Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Great Lakes Health Connect

GRAND RAPIDS – Representatives from Great Lakes Health Connect and Making Choices Michigan have announced the integration of their day-to-day operations. MCM will maintain its existing brand and governing board of directors, but will function as a wholly owned subsidiary of GLHC. Doug Dietzman, Executive Director of GLHC, will add leadership responsibility for MCM to

By |2017-09-21T18:59:19-04:00September 21st, 2017|Life Sciences, News|

Labyrinth Chip Could Help Monitor Aggressive Cancer Stem Cells

ANN ARBOR - Inspired by the Labyrinth of Greek mythology, a new chip etched with fluid channels sends blood samples through a hydrodynamic maze to separate out rare circulating cancer cells into a relatively clean stream for analysis. It is already in use in a breast cancer clinical trial. Tumor cells isolated from blood samples

By |2017-09-21T18:10:37-04:00September 21st, 2017|Life Sciences|

MSU Opens New $88.1 Million Grand Rapids Research Center

GRAND RAPIDS — The new Grand Rapids Research Center opens this week, anchoring the western end of the city’s Medical Mile cluster of education, health care and research institutions and elevating Michigan State University’s role in biomedicine. The $88.1 million facility initially will house 18 research teams that will relocate from the nearby Van Andel Research Institute. The

By |2017-09-18T11:45:06-04:00September 18th, 2017|Life Sciences|

Bionic Heart Tissue: U-M Part Of $20 Million Center

ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan is partnering on an ambitious $20 million project to grow new heart tissue for cardiac patients. The new research center has been awarded to Boston University, with strong partnership from U-M and Florida International University. "A heart attack creates scar tissue, and the heart never returns to full

By |2017-09-13T18:51:11-04:00September 13th, 2017|Life Sciences|

Diabetes Battler Hygieia Signs Distribution Agreement With United Kingdom Supplier

ANN ARBOR – Hygieia, a digital insulin enhancement company, announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Spirit Healthcare, Ltd. to expand accessibility to the d-Nav Insulin Guidance Service across the United Kingdom. Under the agreement, Spirit will license and become a local distributor of the d-Nav Service and other tools developed by Hygieia

By |2017-09-07T11:52:01-04:00September 7th, 2017|Life Sciences|

A Blood Test Can Predict Early Lung Cancer Prognosis

ANN ARBOR - Cancer cells obtained from a blood test may be able to predict how early-stage lung cancer patients will fare, a team from the University of Michigan has shown. This information could be used to determine which patients are most likely to benefit from additional therapies to head off the spread of the

By |2017-09-01T08:16:20-04:00September 1st, 2017|Life Sciences|

NSF Grant To Let U-M Teleport Museum Specimens To Internet

ANN ARBOR - A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch oVert, a new initiative to "teleport" museum specimens from their shelves to the Internet by CT scanning 20,000 vertebrates and making these data-rich, 3-D images available to researchers, educators, students and the public. The University of Michigan is one of 16 research institutions

By |2017-08-25T03:24:49-04:00August 25th, 2017|Life Sciences|

Neogen To Spend $1.3 Million – With Tax Relief Help From Lansing – For Ideal Instruments Headquarters

LANSING — Neogen Corp. will spend $1.3 million on a new home for its Ideal Instruments subsidiary that makes veterinary drug delivery instruments. Neogen develops and markets food and animal safety products The project includes a complete rehabilitation of the building, which has been deemed functionally obsolete by the city of Lansing. The $1.3 million

By |2017-08-10T17:00:54-04:00August 10th, 2017|ESD, Life Sciences|

Genomenon Debuts Version 1.3 Of Mastermind Genomic Search Engine

ANN ARBOR – Genomenon has announced version 1.3 of its Mastermind genomic search engine that adds new tools to help clinicians quickly find authoritative research related to their patients genomic mutations and a new suite of solutions to help automate next generation DNA sequencing workflows. While the cost of DNA sequencing continues to drop faster

By |2017-08-10T08:09:26-04:00August 10th, 2017|Life Sciences, New Products / Contracts|