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🧊 Freeze Time, Decode Cancer, Sleep Deeply – This Week in Health

Your Health, Hacked by Tomorrow’s Tech

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HealthHack
May 23, 2025

Hi there đź‘‹ 

Welcome to the third issue of HealthHack under the EU-Startups banner.

This week, we're travelling to the edge of science fiction and stepping straight into your future.

From cryopreservation labs opening in Europe to at-home brain zapping to fix your insomnia, the latest in HealthTech is all about rethinking what's biologically possible - and making it personally useful.

In this edition, we dive into cryonics with a pulse, cancer decoding with a purpose, and neurostimulation with real-world results. Welcome to your curated dose of what’s next.

Let’s dive in.

Keep an eye out for this week’s Poll below!

EDITOR’S CHOICE ✨ 

“Freeze Now, Heal Later” Is No Longer Sci-Fi

Tomorrow.Bio is making headlines as Europe’s first operational cryonics lab, setting its sights on U.S. expansion thanks to new funding.

Here's why you should care: their mission isn’t just about freezing people after death. It’s about preserving your body - down to your brain’s cellular details - so future medical technologies might someday revive and heal you.

For those worried about degenerative diseases or terminal diagnoses, this is more than a moonshot. It’s a backup plan, one that might one day bridge today’s medicine with tomorrow’s miracles.

Science fiction? Maybe. But it’s happening now.

Cancer, Clarified

Cancer care is being rewritten - not just by fighting tumors, but by decoding survival. These innovations focus on why some people beat the odds, and how that knowledge could help more of us do the same.

A Capsule Against Cancer

CellCentric’s inobrodib is a first-in-class oral drug targeting p300/CBP to suppress cancer drivers like MYC and IRF4 in multiple myeloma. Taken at home, it’s designed for patients who can’t tolerate other therapies and could reduce treatment burden while expanding options across stages of the disease.

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Super Survivors and the Secrets They Hold

Cure51 is working with Charité and other global cancer centers to study long-term survivors of aggressive cancers like glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. Their Rosalind Study is collecting and analyzing survivor biology at scale - hoping to reverse-engineer resilience into new therapies.

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Protein Degradation, Refined

Amphista Therapeutics is applying cryo-EM to develop new “glue degraders” - molecules that direct disease-causing proteins for destruction. It's precision oncology at a molecular level.

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VISIONARY VOICES đź’¬

Rewiring Sleep, Gently

Sleep meds may knock you out, but they often disrupt your brain’s natural rhythms.

Enter Flow Neuroscience’s tDCS headset - a non-invasive brain stim tool now showing remission rates for insomnia with minimal side effects.

In a new study, over 60% of users experienced significant sleep improvements within 10 weeks.

Psychiatrist Dr. Hannah Nearney explains how modulating the prefrontal cortex can potentially help the brain shift from anxiety to deep rest, without the fog of traditional pills.

Chronic Care, Reimagined

When it comes to chronic conditions, HealthTech is shifting from treatment to transformation. These breakthroughs are targeting infertility and regeneration with smarter, more personalized approaches.

Reproductive Science Reimagined

ReproNovo is tackling fertility decline by optimizing embryo development and sperm selection with high-precision tools. For anyone facing fertility hurdles, this tech could make conception smarter - and more successful.

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Regeneration in Action

Regenics is developing Collex, a marine-based hydrogel dressing designed to treat burns and chronic wounds like diabetic ulcers. Made with HTX, a bioactive compound derived from unfertilized salmon roe, Collex has shown strong preclinical results in boosting healing rates.

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AI in Action

Artificial intelligence is moving out of the data lab and into real clinics. From simulating experiments to spotting rare patterns in diagnostics, AI is quietly reshaping how health decisions get made.

Lab Training, Gamified

Envoke’s “flight simulator for labs” is helping researchers practice complex experiments virtually. It reduces lab waste and increases experimental success - a win for efficiency and education.

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Smarter Surgery Starts with Shared Skill

Medical Decision Alliance is digitizing the techniques of expert surgeons to train AI-powered assistance systems. Their “Virtual Proctor” platform turns decades of surgical experience into real-time decision support, helping robotic systems guide procedures and train future surgeons with greater precision and consistency.

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Digital Infrastructure

Behind every treatment is a network - of tests, logistics, and access. These updates show how health platforms are scaling diagnostics and streamlining care delivery worldwide.

Early Detection at Scale

Mainz Biomed’s interim data for their colorectal cancer screening tool shows promise in early, non-invasive detection. The platform could enable more widespread, accessible diagnostics.

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Streamlined Supply Chains for Global Health

Axmed is using smart logistics to get vital maternal and child health supplies where they’re needed most - bridging a critical gap in global healthcare delivery.

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Well that’s it! 🚀 

That’s a wrap on this edition of HealthHack.

From frozen futures and fertility fixes to diagnostic AI and regenerative care, one message is clear: HealthTech isn’t just advancing - it’s getting personal.

Whether you’re planning for the long haul or just trying to get a better night’s sleep, this week's breakthroughs are about meeting your biology where it’s at and pushing it just a bit further.

Until next time, stay curious, stay inspired, and stay healthy.

- The HealthHack Team