Cellbion Co. Ltd. debuted on the tech-heavy Kosdaq board of the Korea Exchange Oct. 16, with share prices closing upward at ₩20,650 (US$14.94) – outdoing its initial price of ₩15,000 per share for 1.9 million shares.

Nanocube Health Ltd. is developing accessible, low-cost nanorobots that could revolutionize diagnosis and treatment of hard-to-diagnose cancers, with pancreatic cancer being the initial focus.

China’s Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. has invested S30 million in Insighta Ltd., an early cancer detection company that was set up as a $200 million joint venture by Prenetics Global Ltd. and inventor Dennis Lo to revolutionize multi-cancer detection.

Regenerative medicine company Orthocell Ltd.’s nerve repair product, Remplir, was approved by Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority, opening up the Asian market for the company’s biggest product.

The U.S. FDA gave the 510(k) green light to Echo IQ Ltd.’s Echosolv AS for its AI-enabled software as a medical device to be used as a decision support aid in detecting severe aortic stenosis.

Varian Medical Systems Inc. launched its Hypersight imaging solution for its Truebeam and Edge linear accelerators across the Asia Pacific region, providing clinicians with better image quality, enhancing their ability to deliver more precise radiation treatments.

China’s National Medical Products Administration wrapped up a revision of its device classification procedures, providing entries into one of the world’s largest markets a mechanism for obtaining means for determining the risk of a novel device type.

Tokyo-based Olympus Corp. launched a new video imaging platform called Visera S (OTV-S500) in Europe and select Asian countries September 2024 while advancing more rollouts for the product worldwide.

Korean med-tech firm Innosys Co. Ltd. recently launched two new injectable spine bone graft substitute products – Velofuse Gel and Velofuse Putty – and announced a name change to CG Medtech Co. Ltd., effective Nov. 4, 2024.