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Crombie Anderson

Crombie AndersonCrombie Anderson provides intelligent, targeted and strategic design and streamlines its creativity through two divisions: Product Design: industrial, mechanical, electronic, and optical design & Graphic Communications: corporate and brand identity, sales and marketing literature, exhibition graphics and web design. Crombie Anderson combines design skills to provide a turnkey solution, or uses particular aspects of its creativity to deliver strategic design to key areas. Crombie Anderson works by establishing the best fit development team from its established network of highly skilled individuals.

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Data Discoveries

Data DiscoveriesData Discoveries supplies businesses easy to use software, which combines access to fourteen databases. This offers the ability to capture names & addresses easily and accurately allowing clients to cleanse and enhance databases; profile new & potential customers and trace individuals. Used by marketeers, financial institutions, government bodies and debt collectors, capabilities can be installed on users' own systems or accessed across the web for low-cost-of-entry and up to date data. Data Discoveries are specialists in both business to consumer and business to business markets.

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Lab901

Lab901With systems now sold across 5 continents, Lab901's revolutionary ScreenTape product automates a traditional bio-analysis process used by thousands of scientists and clinicians around the world. ScreenTape enables diagnostic and life science research labs to achieve rapid and accurate results effortlessly.

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Mpathy

MpathyMpathy Medical is a rapidly growing medical device company which has developed and brought to market a range of surgical solutions used to restore pelvic health to women. Mpathy Medical’s core product lines - Restorelle®, Omnisure™, and Minitape® - are used by surgeons specializing in urogynecology, gynecology, and urology to treat female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP).

Mpathy Medical supplies the only mesh surgical solutions designed specifically for the female anatomy. The mesh - branded Smartmesh® - is a physiologically compatible, ultra lightweight polypropylene mesh which encourages superior collagen growth and works in concert with the patient’s own natural tissue for optimum safety and results.
The company was sold to Coloplast in November 2010 however the shareholders still have an interest in the company through an earnout arrangement.

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Optos

OptosOptos' platform technology is the Panoramic200 Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope device, known as the P200. In a quarter of a second the P200 produces a high resolution image of up to 200 degrees or approximately 82% of the retina in a single capture. The image, branded the optomap Retinal Exam, provides eye care practitioners with clinically useful information that facilitates the early detection of disorders and diseases evidenced in the retina, such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. Retinal imaging can also indicate evidence of non-eye or systemic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and certain cancers. Optos' technology provides an unequalled combination of ultra-widefield retinal imaging, speed and convenience for both practitioner and patient and can help save sight and save lives.

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Stem Cell Sciences PLC

Stem Cell Sciences plc (SCS, AIM:STEM, ASX: STC), the global biotechnology company focused on the commercialisation of stem cells and stem cell technologies in research and cell-based therapies.

Vitrology

VitrologyVitrology is a Biopharmaceutical Contract Research Organisation (CRO). Vitrology assists clients address regulatory concerns around viral safety and other related biosafety issues, allowing them to enter clinical trials or market a licensed biological product.

By working in close collaboration with clients from the early stages of their new drug discovery and development programs, tailoring advice and extending services to meet the precise requirements of each project. Additionally Vitrology develops, conducts and validates custom studies, devising innovative testing procedures, and addressing the unique test specifications required for novel therapeutics. Vitrology was successfully sold to SGS in May 2012

Latest News

SCOTTISH SMES ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION TO ASSIST IN ESTABLISHMENT OFSTRATIFIED MEDICINE SCOTLAND INNOVATION CENTRE

23 Apr 2013
Today Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond announced the creation of a £20M Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC), an initiative to grow Scotland’s reputation as a world leader in the conduct of “smart” clinical trials.

In the simplest terms, stratified medicine is about delivering “the right therapy, for the right patient, in the right dose, at the right time”. It is a medical model using clinical information and molecular profiling technologies to tailor therapeutic strategies and to determine the predisposition to disease at the population level. It enables the delivery of timely and stratified care pathways, monitoring, treatment and prevention.

Touch Bionics unveils next generation prosthetic hand with powered thumb rotation

12 Apr 2013
Touch Bionics, a provider of world-leading prosthetic technologies, today announced a significant advance to the company's groundbreaking i-limbTM technology. The i-limb ultra revolution, featuring a powered rotating thumb, 24 grip options and extra sensitive electrodes, is the first upper limb prosthesis that can be controlled via a mobile application.

£500,000 invested in revolutionary Scottish IT software, ZoneFox

08 Apr 2013
A Scottish IT firm has received over half a million pounds of fresh investment from the angel community and the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, which will enable the accelerated development of its innovative data security software product, ZoneFox, the flagship product of Edinburgh-based Inquisitive Systems.

£3.25m invested in LUX Assure, a corrosion management company for the oil and gas industry

18 Feb 2013
Technology business LUX Assure has received £3.25m to transform the company from a technology development business to a service provider for the oil and gas industry. The investment comes from ConocoPhillips; Statoil Technology Invest AS; Archangel Informal Investment (Archangels); and the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), a division of Scottish Enterprise.

Business angels given special recognition

15 Feb 2013
Archangel Informal Investment has been given special recognition after investing millions of pounds in Scottish companies and providing much-needed cash injections for some of the country’s most exciting life science projects