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KromaTiD Inc | January 14, 2022
KromaTiD is excited to announce early access to our KromaTiD Pinpoint FISH TP53/CEP17 Kit, our new product designed to supply the highest resolution, lowest background, and lowest limit of detection available.
KromaTiD's Pinpoint FISH™ Kit, allows for better hybridization conditions and eliminating strand degradation steps. Pinpoint FISH™ allows researchers to expand beyond the capabilities of conventional FISH probes to detect smaller targets and design ultra-high specificity tests. Our technology is fully compatible with your standard FISH equipment/conditions and BAC probes and works with your established samples, workflow, and imaging system.
"Single-cell genomic measurements from KromaTiD have unique capabilities to analyze and understand the underlying genomic drivers of human disease. Pinpoint FISH has an unmatched resolution, extraordinary ease of use, consistency from analysis to analysis, and an unprecedented ability to distinguish fine genomic structural variation" Dr. Tompkins continues, "While this is the first catalog product from KromaTiD, we have a ten-year history of building a custom assay for Pharma and Biotech companies based on the PPF and dGH platforms. As we begin to build out a comprehensive line of blood cancer measurement kits, we are delighted to bring Pinpoint FISH to a worldwide market". Pinpoint FISH™ is available now from KromaTiD for researchers' use in oligonucleotide-based FISH assays.
Christopher Tompkins, KromaTiD's Chief Technology Officer
About KromaTiD, Inc.
KromaTiD is transforming the fields of genome engineering through the discovery and characterization of genomic structural changes that help leading gene editing and pharmaceutical companies advance therapies to market. KromaTiD offers a powerful suite of products and services for studying genomic rearrangements, custom assay development services and preclinical research support. KromaTiD's proprietary Pinpoint FISH™ and directional Genomic Hybridization platforms (dGHTM) have applications throughout genomics, supplying direct, definitive data on structural variations that no other technologies can provide. We provide the essential genomic structural context to sequence.
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MedX Health Corp | January 28, 2022
Teledermatology company MedX Health Corp. is pleased to announce the launch of MedX Screening Services to be offered at two locations in Ottawa, Canada – ProMed Pharmacy, an independent, pharmacist owned pharmacy enterprise, and Dura Wellness Clinic a retail, clinical focused esthetic services group. Both locations will now offer MedX scanning services and accept walk-in patients.
"This represents the next step in our business plan for North America. ProMed Pharmacy, under the Leadership of Lubna Fawaz, is a perfect model of modern health care delivery as it integrates many services and, most importantly, telehealth services on demand for their patients. Patients can now enter the pharmacy and have a telemedicine consult with a General Practitioner and receive an immediate referral to the Dermsecure Screening Service on site. Incorporating a telemedicine consult with a General Practitioner is a vital step to make DermSecure screening services easily accessible to the public by facilitating both the referral and the screening at the same location."
MedX VP of North American Sales, Paul Ziemer
The addition of ProMed Pharmacy to MedX's Pharmacy network will allow for the "Walk-in-Patient" to get service for their Dermatology concerns if they do not have a Family Doctor or do not have time to get a direct referral.
"MedX remains focused on expanding its footprint into existing and new target markets, and our team is continuing to establish and accelerate many new commercial relationships and partnerships," stated Mike Druhan, MedX President, Dermatology Services. "I remain confident in our team’s ability to expand MedX's teledermatology platform to new markets and greatly improve outcomes for those dermatology patients seeking high-quality, virtual services."
Teledermatology is a subspecialty of dermatology that offers safe and effective virtual care – patient screening and assessment – eliminating the need for in-person appointments with a dermatologist. MedX is a global leader in teledermatology through its high-definition image capture technology, SIAscopy®, and its secure, cloud-based patient management system, DermSecure®, which transmits and stores patient data throughout the assessment process. MedX's SIAscopy® is the only technology globally that captures five high-resolution images of suspicious moles, lesions and skin conditions, including four spectrophotometric images 2mm below the skin's surface. This technology provides detailed patient scans for virtual dermatological assessment by a certified dermatologist within 72 hours.
About MedX Health Corp
MedX, headquartered in Ontario, Canada, is a leading medical device and software company focused on skin health with its SIAscopy® on DermSecure® telemedicine platform, utilizing its SIAscopy® technology. SIAscopy® is also imbedded in its products SIAMETRICS®, SIMSYS®, and MoleMate®, which MedX manufactures in its ISO 13485 certified facility. SIAMETRICS®, SIMSYS®, and MoleMate® include hand-held devices that use patented technology utilizing light and its remittance to view up to 2 mm beneath suspicious moles and lesions in a pain free, non-invasive manner, with its software then creating real-time images for physicians and dermatologists to evaluate all types of moles or lesions within seconds. These products are cleared by Health Canada, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Therapeutic Goods Administration and Conformité Européenne for use in Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, the European Union, Brazil and Turkey.
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AIkido Pharma Inc. | May 05, 2022
AIkido Pharma Inc. announced that the Company has secured an early equity interest in privately-held Discord, Inc. a social communications platform provider that is particularly popular with gamers.
Bloomberg Technology reported on March 14, 2022, that Discord "is interviewing bankers about going public as soon as this year." According to the Bloomberg report, "Discord, last valued by private investors at about $15 billion, is especially popular with gamers and young people. Its success caught the attention of potential suitors, including Microsoft Corp., which was rebuffed after offering $12 billion for it last year." According to The Straits Times, Discord has also held discussions with Epic Games and Amazon.com in the past.
"This investment fits well into our strategy to maximize opportunity for liquidity and monetization events for our shareholders. We believe the offer by Microsoft to buy the company bodes well for this investment, as does a potential near-term IPO."
Anthony Hayes, CEO of AIkido
About AIkido Pharma Inc.
AIkido Pharma Inc. was initially formed in 1967 and is a biotechnology Company with a diverse portfolio of small-molecule anticancer and antiviral therapeutics. The Company's platform consists of patented technology from leading universities and researchers, and we are currently in the process of developing an innovative therapeutic drug platform through strong partnerships with world renowned educational institutions, including The University of Texas at Austin and University of Maryland at Baltimore. Our diverse pipeline of therapeutics includes therapies for pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer. We are constantly seeking to grow our pipeline to treat unmet medical needs in oncology. The Company is also developing a broad-spectrum antiviral platform that may potentially inhibit replication of multiple viruses including Influenza virus, SARS-CoV MERS-CoV, Ebolavirus and Marburg virus.
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Direct Biologics | April 13, 2022
Direct Biologics, an innovative biotechnology company with a groundbreaking extracellular vesicle platform drug technology, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded their EV drug product ExoFlo with a Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation for the treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome associated with COVID-19. The RMAT program is designed to expedite the approval of promising regenerative medical products in the US that demonstrate clinical evidence indicating the ability to address an unmet medical need for a serious life-threatening disease or condition. Under the RMAT designation, the FDA provides intensive guidance on drug development and post-market requirements through early and frequent interactions. Additionally, an RMAT confers eligibility for accelerated approval and priority review of biologics licensing applications.
"After intensively reviewing our preclinical data, manufacturing processes, and clinical data from our Phase II multicenter, double blinded, placebo controlled randomized clinical trial, the FDA has recognized ExoFlo as a lifesaving treatment for patients suffering from Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) due to severe or critical COVID-19. The additional attention, resources, and regulatory benefits provided by an RMAT designation demonstrate that the FDA views ExoFlo as a product that can significantly enhance the standard of care for the thousands still dying from ARDS every week in the US," he said.
Mark Adams, Chief Executive Officer
"We are very pleased that the FDA has recognized the lifesaving potential of our platform drug technology ExoFlo. The RMAT has provided a pathway to expedite our drug development to achieve a BLA in the shortest possible time," said Joe Schmidt, President. "I am very proud of our team. Everyone has been working around the clock for years in our mission to save human lives taken by a disease that lacks treatment options, both in the US and abroad. We are grateful for the opportunity to accelerate development of ExoFlo under the RMAT designation as it leads us closer to our goal of bringing our life saving drug to patients who desperately need it."
ExoFlo is an acellular human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell derived extracellular vesicle product. These nanosized EVs deliver thousands of signals in the form of regulatory proteins, microRNA, and messenger RNA to cells in the body, harnessing the anti-inflammatory and regenerative properties of bone marrow MSCs without the cost, complexity and limitations of scalability associated with MSC transplantation. ExoFlo is produced using a proprietary EV platform technology by Direct Biologics, LLC.
Physicians can learn more and may request information on becoming a study site at clinicaltrials.gov. For more information on Direct Biologics and regenerative medicine, visit: https://directbiologics.com.
About Direct Biologics
Direct Biologics, LLC, is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with an R&D facility located at the University of California, and an Operations and Order Fulfillment Center located in San Antonio, Texas. Direct Biologics is a market-leading innovator and cGMP manufacturer of regenerative medical products, including a robust EV platform technology. Direct Biologics' management team holds extensive collective experience in biologics research, development, and commercialization, making the Company a leader in the evolving segment of next generation regenerative biotherapeutics. Direct Biologics has obtained and is pursuing multiple additional clinical indications for ExoFlo through the FDA's investigational new drug (IND) process.
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