Summarizing the month in European dealmaking.

A preview of the emerging health care companies profiled in the current issue of Start-Up. This month's profile group, Stem Cell Technologies, features profiles of NeuroNova AB, StemCo Biomedical Inc., StemSource Inc. and StemCo Biomedical Inc. Plus these Selected Start-Ups across Health Care: Fluidigm Corp., MelTec GMBH, NeuroVision Inc. and Psychogenics Inc.

MelTec believes it improves on the state-of-the-art in proteomics with a technology that it terms "topological proteomics." In addition to establishing conventional protein expression levels and binary interaction patterns directly in cells, MelTec offers technology that can look at the proteins within an intact cell to pinpoint their location.