Author: Michael

Ascensia partnership puts the London healthtech’s microsensor on the road to a European launch – with ambitions that run well beyond glucose. There is a neat irony in a fingerstick company funding the device that might make fingersticks unnecessary. Ascensia Diabetes Care, maker of the CONTOUR blood glucose meters, has led a $36 million Series B in Sava Technologies, the London healthtech whose microsensor reads glucose from just beneath the skin. It has also agreed to commercialize and distribute the device in Europe once it is approved – which suggests Ascensia sees more future in the sensor than in defending…

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