British biotech startup Oxford Nanopore plots £3bn London IPO
British biotech startup Oxford Nanopore is planning to list in London this year. The planned initial public offering (IPO) is expected to value the company at £2.5 to £4bn. Oxford...
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Delta variant forces Google to delay office return
Google has delayed forcing workers back to the office as the Delta variant continues to...
CTO Talk: Q&A with Limbic’s Sebastiaan de Vries
Sebastiaan de Vries is the CTO and co-founder of Limbic, a startup building mental health software for talk therapy. The...
Forget Covid: Brexit is still the biggest threat to UK healthcare
Everyone has a view on Brexit’s business impact these days, but the most valuable opinion belongs to insiders. For this...
Blackberry’s automotive dreams throttled by new cyber vulnerability
BlackBerry has reluctantly confirmed that a vulnerability in its software could cripple cars, hospital equipment and drug manufacturing devices. Its...
Why 5G is the MVP of the healthcare tech revolution
The impact of Covid, vaccine technology and hot topics such as Obamacare and NHS privatisation creep will all have an obvious future effect on healthcare around the world. Perhaps overlooked…
How Certara’s crystal ball accurately simulated the vaccine rollout
The Certara Vaccine Simulator accurately predicted an eight-week optimal timing interval between Covid-19 vaccine doses. The Pitch study, conducted at Oxford University, recently found that an interval of eight to ten weeks…
The NHS says data saves lives. Smart hospitals may prove it
Soon before his scandal-ridden departure from British politics, the then-health and social care secretary Matt Hancock announced a draft strategy to support delivery of patient centred care through NHS England,…
CMR Surgical’s $600m round shows medical robotics companies are medtech’s future
CMR Surgical, one of the UK’s biggest medical robotics companies, raised $600m in the world’s largest medical technology raise at the end of June, taking its valuation to $3bn. The…
The Cambridge-1 supercomputer may be live, but is the Nvidia tech super for pharma?
Tech multinational Nvidia has switched on its new Cambridge-1 supercomputer, bragging that it's the fastest one ever in the UK. It's now attempting to prove its chops by finding new…
Covid and Big Tech are driving Augmented Reality into healthcare
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool has added to a long list of "firsts" in its century-long history by making innovative use of Augmented Reality (AR) technology to help its…
