Life Sciences

Oct 21, 2026

Limber Health Introduces 90 Day Recovery Forecast for Rehab Therapy

Recovery Forecast predicts patient progress over 90 days and lets clinicians compare reassessment scores with the expected path.

Oct 21, 2026

Coherence Neuro Raises $45 Million for Brain Cancer Implant

Coherence Neuro raised $45 million to develop a brain implant that detects electrical signals linked to tumors and delivers stimulation intended to halt their growth.

Oct 21, 2026

OpenAI Uses Thousands of Agents to Analyze Brain Cell Data

OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze data from millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes.

Oct 21, 2026

iReprogram and University of Michigan Launch AI Diabetes Cell Initiative

iReprogram and the University of Michigan have launched a multimillion dollar initiative that will use AI to develop cell reprogramming methods for diabetes therapies.

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FDA expects draft policy guidance for generative AI medical devices within months, while MHRA plans draft guidance on change control plans at the end of the year.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

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring AI agents into drug development

OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup building AI agents for drug development, and will fold it into its Rosalind life sciences tools. Terms were not disclosed.

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

OpenEvidence and Doximity Settle Clinical AI Legal Dispute

OpenEvidence and Doximity have settled a legal dispute involving allegations of corporate espionage, doctor impersonation, defamation, and platform misuse. A federal judge dismissed the case with prejudice.

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.