Cancer Screening

New Cancer-Screening Urine Test Has 99 Percent Accuracy Rate

KOREA - A simple urine test could soon help prevent pancreatic and prostate cancer from progressing through early detection. Researchers from the Surface & Nano Materials Division of the Korea Institute of Materials Science recently developed a strip-type urine sensor capable of amplifying the light signal of metabolites in urine to diagnose cancer. In a press

By |2023-03-08T09:58:50-05:00March 7th, 2023|Featured, Life Sciences, Life Sciences/Biotech|

Cancer Screening Startup Raises $22 Million

ROYAL OAK—OncoCell MDx Inc., a startup incubated at Harvard University to develop sophisticated cancer diagnosis from a simple blood sample, has raised $22.2 million in a Preferred Series B funding round. The financing was led by San Francisco-based Savitr Capital LLC, with participation from existing investors. OncoCell began operations in 2013, and since then has

By |2019-09-14T15:01:19-04:00September 14th, 2019|Life Sciences|