For Inocras Inc., the benefits of whole genome sequencing are two-fold. First is its explicit usefulness in diagnosing and treating hard-to-treat diseases like cancer and rare diseases. The second, less apparent, benefit lies in the data generated in the process, and its applications to current and future generations of cancer patients.
The first filing from Cancerrisk AI Inc. describes their development of a system that uses deep learning to predict future cancer risk from a biopsy image.
Inbrain Neuroelectronics SL closed a $50 million series B financing round to advance clinical trials for its graphene-based brain-computer interface therapeutics platform. The company also secured additional funding from Merck KGaA GmbH which will go towards developing the technology for application across both central and peripheral nervous systems.