The companies are working to develop an ingestible capsule that will allow preparation-free colorectal cancer screening.
Check-Cap CEO Bill Densel said in a release, “We are very excited to have achieved success in the first critical phase of our collaboration with GE Healthcare, where we demonstrated the capability of our process to manufacture X-ray sources for the C-Scan system.”
The C-Scan system eliminates the need for bowel preparation, fasting and sedation.
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