Start-Up Spotlight: Elypta Targets World’s First Metabolism-Based Early Cancer Diagnosis

Chalmers University of Technology spin out takes a different route to cancer biomarker identification

The Swedish liquid biopsy start-up expects to be the first company to secure US FDA approval for a metabolism-based urine test for the early detection of kidney cancer in post-surgery patients.

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Diagnostic tools have rarely had such concerted attention as during COVID-19. And science advances have been moving modern diagnostic techniques, such as circulating tumor DNA biomarkers, epigenetic markers, DNA methylation and RNA screening, up the agenda.

But those technologies are not particularly sensitive to the early stages of cancer, said Elypta CEO Karl Bergman. The company...

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