We’ll start with the acquisition: This week, daily e-newsletter Morning Brew announced that it had acquired One Future, a digital media startup, with the hopes of tapping a larger Gen Z audience. The companies declined to disclose terms of the deal. Our Future...
The FDA has granted Breakthrough Device status to Micronoma’s OncobiotaLUNG microbiome-driven blood assay for early lung cancer detection. Lung cancer is currently diagnosed though computed tomography scanning in which, when an indeterminate lung nodule is found, the...
A flurry of microbiome research over the past two decades has led to many insights about the link between the microbes and health, but now the race to the clinic is on. Over the past two decades scientists have been working steadily to unravel the complex interplay of...
Experts say fungi can be found in a variety of places in the human body as well as in cancer tumors. Researchers say the microorganisms may be useful in developing new diagnostic tools and treatments. They say fungi may be able to develop biomarkers to detect cancer...
Fungal communities (mycobiota) constitute a subset of the human microbiome that can trigger an immune response, but little is known about their presence or functional role in human cancers. Two independent studies published in the journal Cell, report converging...
