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Firm with First NanoDevice Gets AcquiredFirm with First NanoDevice Gets Acquired
Angstrom Medica, Inc. (Woburn, MA), which claims to have been the first firm to get a nanotechnology medical device approved by FDA, has been acquired by Pioneer Surgical Technology (PST; Marquette, MI), according to a release posted on devicelink.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
October 25, 2007
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Angstrom will become a subsidiary of PST, and part of its orthobiologics division.Angstrom's NanOss uses nanotechnology to enable products that are highly osteoconductive and can remodel over time into human bone. NanOss, like human bone, is made of hydroxyapatite crystals. By controlling the material at the nanocrystalline level the resulting compound can have the strength of established polymer surgical implants.
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