Intuitive Surgical buys NeoGuide for less invasive surgical tech

Intuitive Surgical, provider of large robotic surgical equipment, announced its acquisition of NeoGuide Systems, a San Jose, Calif., company that makes minimally invasive surgical devices. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Intuitive says it doesn’t have a specific application for NeoGuide’s technology… Continue Reading

Arcxis pulls in funds to diagnose gene-linked diseases

Arcxis Biotechnologies, a Pleasanton, Calif. biotech tool maker focused on DNA analysis — especially for diagnostic purposes — just closed an undisclosed sum (higher than $8 million) toward an anticipated $15 million second round of funding for commercial development of its lead product (slated to… Continue Reading

Predictive Biosciences raises $21.8M for cancer diagnostic tech

Predictive Biosciences, a company that hopes to improve the way cancer is diagnosed and monitored, announced that it brought in $21.8 million in second-round financing led by New Enterprise Associates and including contributions from Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Flybridge Venture Capital and Highland Capital Partners. This… Continue Reading

Life sciences briefing: Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008

Life sciences briefing: Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

Compact ultrasound maker Zonare Medical raises $30M (VentureWire)
TherOx raises $30M for hypersaturated-oxygen devices (peHUB)
Accumetrics, antiplatelet-drug diagnostic maker, raises $29M (release)
Population Genetics takes in £3.8M for massively parallel genome studies (GenomeWeb)
“Brain fitness” trainer Dakim raises $11M (release)
BioIQ, home-diagnostics maker, takes in $2.5M (release)
Hospital med-tracker Sabal… Continue Reading

Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007

Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007

Featured companies: Apex Radiology, Arcxis Biotechnologies, EKR Therapeutics, Franklin & Seidelmann, Michelson Diagnostics, SensiGen, Vascular Closure Systems

UPDATED: Expanded items on Arcxis, Vascular Closure and Archemix.

Arcxis pulls in $2M for DNA tools — Arcxis Biotechnologies, a Pleasanton, Calif., biotech tool maker focused on analysis of DNA and proteins… Continue Reading

Healthline gets $21M more to extend health search engine

Healthline gets $21M more to extend health search engine

Giant players such as Google and Microsoft already provide health care-focused search sites, but they aren’t that impressive.

San Francisco’s Healthline, however, is focusing solely on health search, and is making surprising headway. It has six million monthly unique users, and is the only search engine… Continue Reading