Life Sciences

Oct 21, 2026

Avenda Health Brings Unfold AI Maps Into Prostate Surgery

Avenda Health introduces Surgery Mode for Unfold AI, giving surgeons access to patient specific prostate cancer maps and risk scores during procedures.

Oct 21, 2026

Illumina Adds Three Research Tools to BioInsight Platform

Illumina has added Workflow Orchestrator, DRAGEN Ultra and Learning Cohorts to its BioInsight Platform through early access.

Oct 21, 2026

Tessa AI Launches Free Tool to Check Health News Research

Tessa AI's free Newslink tool checks the health claims in a news story against the published studies behind them and rates each claim.

Oct 21, 2026

TCS Showcases Haptic Feedback System for Robotic Surgery

TCS showcased a bidirectional haptic feedback system meant to give surgeons a sense of touch in robotic surgery at The MedTech Conference in Boston.

Oct 21, 2026

Genie Health Raises $3 Million for AI Health Platform

The Singapore health tech startup founded by former PropertyGuru CEO Hari Krishnan has raised $3 million in seed funding.

Oct 21, 2026

Epic Explores AI Agents for Routine Patient Visits

Epic is exploring AI agents that execute clinical protocols to handle parts of routine visits, with physicians making the final call, an Epic executive said.

Oct 21, 2026

FDA and MHRA outline faster rules for generative AI medical devices

FDA expects draft policy guidance for generative AI medical devices within months, while MHRA plans draft guidance on change control plans at the end of the year.

Oct 20, 2026

Sunlight AI Raises $17.4 Million and Acquires Bradford Medical Associates

Sunlight AI raised $17.4 million in seed funding and acquired Bradford Medical Associates as it builds an administrative platform for independent medical practices.

Oct 20, 2026

Georgia Tech instructions reduce chatbot agreement with delusions by 74%

Georgia Tech researchers found that instructions discouraging excessive agreement reduced AI models' confirmation of delusional beliefs by 73.8%. Adding a self reflection step increased the reduction to 77%.

Oct 20, 2026

Radical Numerics Launches Omnii-1 Biology Model

Radical Numerics launched Omnii-1, a genome language model that learns from DNA, RNA, proteins and other molecular data. The company says researchers used it to design a bacteriophage administered to a patient with a drug resistant infection.

Oct 20, 2026

Gates Foundation Updates AI Principles on Access and Safety

The Gates Foundation updated its AI principles to focus on equitable access, local languages, community involvement, human oversight, privacy and measurable results.

Oct 20, 2026

MEDITECH and Lifemed AI Partner on Claims Automation

Lifemed AI joined the MEDITECH Alliance program to offer its DeepClaim and Gateway systems to hospitals using MEDITECH. The products automate claim reviews, appeals, eligibility checks and patient registration tasks.

Oct 20, 2026

Sophont launches Holon-S1 to predict gene activity from pathology slides

Sophont launches Holon-S1, a pan cancer AI model that predicts spatial gene and biological pathway activity from routine pathology slides. The model is available for research use only.

Oct 20, 2026

Study Finds Clinical Stigma Can Skew AI Emergency Triage

UT Southwestern researchers found that stigmatizing language in medical records can cause AI models to deprioritize emergency patients who later experience serious deterioration.

Oct 20, 2026

Trinity Acquires Verix to Add Tovana to TrinityEDGE

Trinity acquired Verix, adding its Tovana commercial intelligence platform and full team to TrinityEDGE. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Oct 20, 2026

Azra AI Acquires Blackford Analysis

Azra AI completed its acquisition of medical imaging AI platform Blackford Analysis, combining imaging analysis with patient care coordination.

Oct 20, 2026

Inovia Bio Launches Falcon for Drug Development Workflows

Inovia Bio launched Falcon Workflows, an AI system that drafts clinical documents, forecasts markets, reviews literature and analyzes drug pipelines.

Oct 20, 2026

Penn's Percival AI Flags Hidden Disease Signals in Routine CT Scans

Penn Medicine researchers developed Percival, an AI model that finds signs of chronic disease and future health risks in routine CT scans. The model remains in preclinical testing.

Oct 20, 2026

XRlabs Raises €7.48 Million for Surgical AI

XRlabs raised €7.48 million in seed funding to expand its surgical planning and operating room software. Playground Global led the round, with participation from Eka Ventures.

Oct 20, 2026

AI Estimates Cancer Survival From a Face Photo

Mass General Brigham researchers developed two AI tools that use a facial photograph to estimate biological age and cancer survival.