Detecting cancer early is the key to defeating it. Laboratory for Advanced Medicine (LAM) is working to detect cancer in its infancy when treatment options have the best chance to be successful. The company’s platform technology, IvyGene, detects the presence of cancer in blood samples and gives quantifiable data about the disease. LAM’s approach differs […]

Last week, regulators in the U.S. and Europe disclosed that the same carcinogen that led to numerous recalls over the past year of valsartan and similar blood pressure pills was found in Zantac and other antacid medicines known as ranitidines. The Food and Drug Administration, however, was first alerted to the presence of the carcinogen, […]

A Bloomington startup called SubioMed wants to put a new spring in your step. Based on technology invented by a Minnesota podiatrist, SubioMed is developing a line of hinged carbon-fiber devices worn on the bottom of a cast or inside a “boot” brace that use a springlike mechanism to make it easier to walk more […]