Life Sciences

Oct 28, 2026

Anthropic Expands Free Claude Credits to 20 Science Groups

Anthropic is expanding its AI for Science program through partnerships with 20 scientific foundations, institutions and research groups worldwide.

Oct 28, 2026

Eli Lilly Licenses SpeechDx Data for Alzheimer's Research

Eli Lilly will use the SpeechDx dataset to study speech as a marker for Alzheimer's disease risk and cognitive decline.

Oct 28, 2026

Formation Bio Forms $600 Million Drug Development Fund

Formation Bio formed a $600 million fund to acquire and advance 10 to 15 clinical stage drug programs over the next three to five years.

Oct 28, 2026

Zocdoc Opens Healthcare Booking Infrastructure to AI Agents

Zocdoc is opening its healthcare booking infrastructure to registered AI agents and partnering with Instinct to support provider searches, insurance checks and confirmed appointments.

Oct 27, 2026

Anthropic Reports Early Claude Results in Drug Development

Anthropic says Claude has supported drug design, laboratory analysis, regulatory documentation, and clinical trial planning in projects with six life sciences organizations.

Oct 27, 2026

UnitedHealthcare Expands Avery AI Assistant to 21 Million Members

UnitedHealthcare is expanding access to its Avery generative AI assistant from about 6.7 million members to 21 million. The insurer says Avery resolves 90% of member interactions without human support.

Oct 27, 2026

Atlas Bio raises $12.5 million for virtual drug trials

Swiss biotech startup Atlas Bio raised $12.5 million to develop an AI model that simulates drug efficacy and safety in virtual patients.

Oct 27, 2026

Adsilico Raises £10 Million for Virtual Medical Device Testing

University of Leeds spinout adsilico raised £10 million to expand its virtual patient technology for testing medical devices before clinical trials.

Oct 27, 2026

Vera Health raises $28.5M for clinical AI search

Vera Health raised a $28.5 million Series A to expand its clinical evidence search platform, which is used by more than 800,000 clinicians across 190 countries.

Oct 25, 2026

Baba Raises $40 Million for AI Medicare and Medicaid Care

Baba, an AI care company for Medicare and Medicaid patients, raised a $40 million Series A led by FirstMark.

Oct 24, 2026

Google Expands AI Tuberculosis Screening Across Africa and Indonesia

Google Research is expanding tuberculosis screening tools based on chest X rays, cough audio and open models. Its technology supports clinical deployments in Africa and a national screening program in Indonesia.

Oct 24, 2026

Lunit and Summit Test AI Pathology for Ivonescimab Research

Lunit and Summit Therapeutics will use the Lunit SCOPE IO pathology platform to analyze tumor tissue images for research involving ivonescimab.

Oct 23, 2026

Pathos AI Raises $237 Million at $3 Billion Valuation

Pathos AI raised $237 million in a Series E round led by Bristol Myers Squibb. The company will expand its Foundry AI platform and advance four oncology drug candidates.

Oct 23, 2026

BioVid launches synthetic physician research platform

BioVid has launched Mimetics, a research platform that models how physicians assess evidence and make treatment decisions. The company says validation tests found an 80% to 90% match between synthetic and human physician groups.

Oct 23, 2026

NICE Recommends Five AI Tools for Prostate MRI Scans

Draft NICE guidance recommends five AI tools for NHS use during a two year evidence collection period. The software highlights possible cancer on prostate MRI scans for review by radiologists.

Oct 23, 2026

Boehringer Ingelheim and Microsoft to Study Digital Patient Twins

Boehringer Ingelheim and Microsoft will study Digital Patient Twins for clinical development, starting with lung health.

Oct 23, 2026

Coreline Soft Receives FDA Clearance for Aortic CT Analysis Software

The FDA has cleared AVIEW Aorta Metrics, which automatically segments the aorta and measures its diameter from chest CT images.

Oct 23, 2026

Ping An Good Doctor Profit Rises 35% as AI Doctor Users Near 13 Million

Ping An Good Doctor reported RMB 250 million in net profit for the first nine months of 2026, while its AI Doctor service reached nearly 13 million users.

Oct 22, 2026

BioStack Raises $9.5 Million for Medical AI Data Network

BioStack raised $9.5 million in seed funding and launched a data network covering more than 100 million de identified patient records across four countries.

Oct 22, 2026

Warp Sciences Raises $215 Million to Automate Drug Discovery Labs

Former OpenAI science lead Kevin Weil launched Warp Sciences with $215 million in funding at an $865 million valuation. The startup will train robots to make and test compounds for drug discovery.