Life Sciences

Gardner optical instrument manufacturer Precision Optics is looking to expand its presence in the national investment community with the hiring of one of the country’s largest investor relations firms for smaller companies.

Marlborough medical diagnostics firm Oxford Immunotec is raising its 2019 expectations after reporting an 18% bump in its second quarter revenue. 

Hindsight is 20/20, and it is hard to understand the full depth and consequences for the future in any given moment; but the healthcare industry, regulators and pharmaceutical companies should have reversed course well before the opioid crisis cost passed the Vietnam War in lost American lives.

Medical device maker Hologic has begun the acquisition of French ultrasound manufacturer SuperSonic Imagine with the purchase of 46% of the firm’s shares. 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is working with a Holliston-based manufacturer of prosthetic devices to develop wireless sensors to improve the performance of upper-limb prosthetics.

The stock of Hopkinton drugmaker Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals was up nearly 10% Monday on the news its new drug was accepted into the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's drug program to begin clinical trials. 

Harvard Bioscience opened the stock market on Friday trending up more than 20% after its second-quarter earnings reflected an improved financial condition as the company focuses on improving its underlying performance. 

A California medical device firm says it has won a patent spat with Marlborough firm Hologic after a U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected Hologic’s appeal of a previous court decision. 

A new muscle-toning device  from Marlborough medical device firm BTL Industries previously approved for the abs, butt and thighs is now approved to help tone up the arms and calves. 

Franklin medical device company Arthrosurface has launched its newest product: a thumb joint implant for patients with arthritis.