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SEEING THE LIGHT: During a recent visit to Ortho Rhode Island in Warwick, Mike Mogul, right, IlluminOss Medical Inc. board chairman, explains to House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, left, how the company’s technology works to mend bones through the use of light-sensitive glue and blue optic fibers. In the middle is Ortho RI CEO and President Dr. Michael Bradley. 
PBN PHOTO/KATIE CASTELLANI

A better way to mend broken bones? R.I. company says yes

More than two years ago, Deborah Bathgate fell off a ladder and knew something was wrong as soon as she crashed to the ground. She...
FIRST CUSTOMER? William Prentice, CEO of Providence-based Signati Medical Inc., displays the company’s noninvasive vasectomy device. He says he’s considering being its first official user and have the procedure filmed for TV, if the technology gets regulatory approval. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. firm looks to upend vasectomy procedures

For the last two decades, little has changed in the way vasectomies are performed, a procedure that more than 500,000 men undergo annually. Providence-based Signati...
FOUNDED 35 YEARS AGO to help other organizations develop their medical devices, the Providence-based Ximedica was recently acquired by the Summit Partners-backed Veranex to provide end-to-end, concept-through-commercialization services. / Courtesy of Veranex.

Providence-based Ximedica acquired by medical technology pipeline service

PROVIDENCE – Ximedica, founded 35 years ago to help other organizations develop their medical devices, was recently acquired by a newly formed North Carolina...
FULL CIRCLE: Providence-based Maternova was the first medtech venture to complete an accelerator program at Social Enterprise Greenhouse. The company’s founder, Meg Wirth, is now SEG’s director of health and wellness. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

After years of promise, R.I. medtech sector emerging from Boston’s shadow

After working for a large company for more than a decade, Dom Messerli was on his own for the first time in 2016. He’d just...

Commerce steps toward right balance

Critics of R.I. Commerce Corp. have often complained it’s been too focused on attracting businesses from outside the state, to the detriment of local...
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