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Imperial College London spin-out Acrobot, a medical devices company specialising in computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery, has been acquired by Stanmore Implants Worldwide.

The UK Technology Strategy Board has set up the Stratified Medicines Innovation Platform to oversee an investment of over £50 million in personalised medicine.

Two papers have generated the first evidence of the value of using electronic patient records as the basis of research.