Life Sciences

Applications of AI in healthcare, including medical diagnostics, drug discovery, patient care solutions, and biotechnology research.

Sep 17, 2026

Gates Foundation Commits $1 Billion to Expand AI Access

The Gates Foundation will spend at least $1 billion over two years on AI tools and access across education, health care, agriculture, and digital infrastructure.

Sep 17, 2026

Insilico Medicine Opens AI Longevity Research Toolkit

Insilico Medicine released an open toolkit with an AI benchmark, specialized language models and an agent platform for aging research. Its top model recorded the highest overall score among 26 systems tested on LongevityBench.

Sep 17, 2026

Inductive Bio launches Beacon-2 to predict human drug doses

Beacon-2 predicts the efficacious human dose of a small molecule from its chemical structure and is available through the Compass platform.

Sep 17, 2026

Gigasheet Launches AI Agent for Healthcare Claim Benchmarking

Gigasheet introduces an AI agent that compares healthcare claims with published commercial rates and geographically adjusted Medicare reimbursement data.

Sep 17, 2026

Canary Speech Joins TIME's 2026 HealthTech Ranking

Canary Speech was included among TIME and Statista's top 500 health technology companies for the second consecutive year.

Sep 17, 2026

DarioHealth Wins Contract With Major New Jersey Health Plan

DarioHealth secured a contract with a New Jersey health plan covering about 1.5 million people. The program will launch and begin generating revenue in the first quarter of 2027.

Sep 17, 2026

XpertDox Brings AI Medical Coding to Kai Shin Clinic

Kai Shin Clinic will use XpertDox's autonomous medical coding platform across its behavioral health and primary care operations in Minnesota.

Sep 17, 2026

Sentara Health Pilots GW RhythmX AI for Primary Care

Sentara Health will pilot the GW RhythmX Precision Care Platform to provide clinicians with patient specific recommendations during primary care visits. The system analyzes clinical, operational, financial and social data to identify care gaps and relevant treatment guidance.

Sep 17, 2026

CMS Creates Procedure Code for Computer Aided Neuraxial Guidance

The new ICD-10-PCS code identifies computer aided navigation in the spinal canal using ultrasound imaging and continuous needle tracking during neuraxial anesthesia.

Sep 17, 2026

Zocdoc Launches Care Access Network for Appointment Booking

Zocdoc is opening its appointment booking infrastructure to AI platforms, insurers, search engines and review sites through its new Care Access Network.

Sep 16, 2026

Linearis Joins Two Canadian AI Health Data Projects

Linearis will participate in two projects funded through the Terry Fox Research Institute's Digital Health Innovation Fund, covering cancer treatment prediction and neurodegenerative disease monitoring.

Sep 16, 2026

Astrin Names Medical Director as Certitude Breast Expands Nationwide

Astrin Biosciences appointed oncologist Dr. Tanya Gupta as Medical Director as it expands its Certitude Breast blood test nationwide.

Sep 16, 2026

Amgen Selects Veeva Vault CRM for Global Deployment

Amgen plans to deploy Veeva Vault CRM across its global operations as part of its commercial technology strategy.

Sep 16, 2026

Medallion Acquires Andros for Healthcare Credentialing

Medallion has acquired credentials verification organization Andros, bringing more than one million providers across nearly 400 healthcare organizations and health plans onto one platform.

Sep 16, 2026

SENA Health Raises Series A for AI Care Coordination

SENA Health raised an undisclosed Series A round led by Rittenhouse Ventures to expand its Clinical Command Center, global operations and AI capabilities.

Sep 16, 2026

Notable Names Nicholas Desai Chief Medical Officer

Notable appointed Dr. Nicholas Desai as chief medical officer to help health systems apply AI to patient access, care operations, and workforce productivity.

Sep 16, 2026

MediSights Reports Study Using AI Agents for Myeloma Market Research

MediSights says its AI agents interviewed specialists about multiple myeloma treatment decisions and referral patterns. The company sells the technology the study tested and has not published its method.

Sep 16, 2026

KELLS AI Dental Scan Gains Singapore Medical Device Registration

Singapore's Health Sciences Authority has registered the KELLS AI Dental Scan as a Class B medical device. The consumer tool analyzes smartphone images of teeth for potential oral health concerns.

Sep 16, 2026

Lunai Bioworks Tests AI Chemical Risk Screening Model

A BioSymetrics case study tested structure based screening for chemical outputs generated by AI systems, achieving a 0.88 AUROC on a held out test set.

Sep 16, 2026

MRO Acquires Vyne Medical to Expand Clinical Data Platform

MRO acquired Vyne Medical, adding document processing and data intake tools that convert paper, voice, fax and images into digital information for healthcare workflows.

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