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Startup Scout 16 Nov 2018

This Biotech Measures How Well Kidney Dialysis Machines Filter Your Blood

We take a hop, skip and a jump into Tallinn, Estonia this week. Optofluid Technologies is developing sensors that measure blood toxin levels to see how well dialysis procedures are working in kidney failure patients. Mission: To improve the effectiveness of dialysis in kidney failure patients. Optofluid’s experimental optical sensor could give physicians detailed real-time […]

November 16, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 9 Nov 2018

This Biotech Uses Radioactive Chemicals to Diagnose Brain Cancer

In Athens, Greece, we find pro-Actina. This biotech is working on a method to diagnose brain cancer by measuring how ‘leaky’ the brain is. Mission: Founded in 2006, the company is working to improve glioma diagnosis by using a combination of CT scans and an injectable radioactive chemical tracer. Gliomas are the most common forms […]

November 9, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 2 Nov 2018

This Biotech Uses Metal Alloys to Reshape Your Bones

We venture up to the North European climes of Finland this week. In the city of Espoo, Synoste is developing bone lengthening devices made of smart malleable materials. Mission: To modernize bone lengthening devices with new techniques such as using malleable metals with wireless control. People born with discrepancies in limb length often suffer from […]

November 2, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 26 Oct 2018

This Biotech Develops Biodegradable Antimicrobial Paint For Your Yacht

It is time to sail to Portugal for our Lisbon-based biotech of the week, BioMimetx. The company is developing biodegradable antimicrobial paint additives to help marine industries keep their surfaces clean of microbe buildup. Mission: Are you an environmentally conscious yacht owner who wants a clean boat bottom? If so, you are in luck, as […]

October 26, 2018 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Startup Scout 19 Oct 2018

This Biotech Spins Silk That Can Repair Nerves

We fly to Lomazzo, Italy, this week to visit Silk Biomaterials. As the name implies, the company is testing different medical applications of silk, such as in nerve repair. Mission: Founded in 2014, Silk Biomaterials uses silk as a scaffold material for medical applications such as vascular grafts and peripheral nerve repair. In many tissue […]

October 19, 2018 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 12 Oct 2018

This Biotech is the First to Work on Antivirals for Farm Livestock

While in Leuven, Belgium, for last week’s Biotech of the Week, we decided to go to the vet. ViroVet is a company aiming to improve viral disease control in livestock, which is a huge sector of global agriculture. Mission: To develop novel antivirals and vaccines for farm livestock. This would give farmers more tools for […]

October 12, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Startup Scout 5 Oct 2018

This Biotech Sticks Bacterial Proteins Together to Fight Antibiotic Resistance

This week’s biotech has its base in Leuven, Belgium. The newly-founded Aelin Therapeutics hopes to combat antibiotic resistance by doing the pharmacological equivalent of boiling an egg. Mission: To develop a new type of drugs to kill bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. In the future, the drugs could also be used to kill pathogenic […]

October 5, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 28 Sep 2018

This Spanish Biotech Helps Personalize Post-Kidney Transplant Care

We arrive in the city of Madrid this week to showcase Biohope, which is developing a technique to combat kidney transplant rejection by tailoring immunosuppressant treatments to individual patients. Mission: Founded in 2015, Biohope is developing a commercial lab kit, called Immunobiogram, that predicts the most effective immunosuppressant drugs for kidney transplant patients. Around […]

September 28, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Startup Scout 17 Aug 2018

This Italian Biotech Makes Wood-Derived Bone Implants

Today, we’re in Faenza, Italy, visiting GreenBone, a biotech developing wood-derived bone implants for patients with bone fractures. Mission: Founded in 2014, GreenBone takes bamboo and converts it to a calcium compound called hydroxyapatite. The material could be used as an alternative to bone grafts made from a deceased donor or bone taken from another […]

August 17, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

Startup Scout 3 Aug 2018

This Biotech Targets the Neuronal Causes of Hearing Loss

Today, we’re in Archamps, France, visiting Pragma Therapeutics, a neuroscience biotech developing drugs to regulate neuronal signalling in hearing loss. Mission: Pragma Therapeutics develops treatments for noise-induced and age-related hearing loss that regulate glutamate levels. Glutamate is the most abundant neurotransmitter in the nervous system and makes nerve cells turn on, or fire. In patients with […]

August 3, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

Startup Scout 29 Jun 2018

This French Biotech Links Drugs Together to Target Bone Cancer

This week, we’re in Aronnax, France, visiting Atlanthera, a biotech developing more effective treatments for bone cancer using a two-compound approach. Mission: Antlanthera was founded in 2011 with the goal of developing more effective drugs for bone cancer. The company uses biophosphonates, a popular bone-building treatment for osteoporosis, to target bone tissue. Atlanthera’s technology works […]

June 29, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

Startup Scout 15 Jun 2018

This Israeli Biotech is Making Cultured Meat More Like the Real Thing

Today, we’re in Ashdod, Israel, visiting Aleph Farms, a biotech that’s making cultured meat grown in a 3D environment that resembles the texture of natural meat. Mission: Founded in 2017, Aleph Farms uses cell samples taken from living cattle to create cultured meat. The cells are then grown in a 3D environment, which can help […]

June 15, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

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This Biotech Measures How Well Kidney Dialysis Machines Filter Your Blood

This Biotech Uses Radioactive Chemicals to Diagnose Brain Cancer

This Biotech Uses Metal Alloys to Reshape Your Bones

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This Biotech Spins Silk That Can Repair Nerves

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