Life Sciences

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

AstraZeneca and Oracle Partner on AI for Clinical Trials

AstraZeneca and Oracle will combine clinical expertise, health data, cloud infrastructure, and AI to support trial recruitment, diagnosis, safety monitoring, and care workflows.

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.

Oct 19, 2026

E(3)-Pose Tracks Fetal Movement During MRI Scans

Researchers at MIT, Boston Children's Hospital, and Inria developed E(3)-Pose, a deep learning model that tracks fetal head movement during MRI scans. The model uses head symmetry to help produce clearer 3D brain images.

Oct 19, 2026

Georgia Tech Gets $1.5 Million Grant for AI Assistive Technology Platform

Georgia Tech researchers received a three year, $1.5 million grant to expand a platform that helps older adults find assistive technologies for independent living.

Oct 19, 2026

EchoNous Releases Torso NXT Ultrasound Probe in US

EchoNous has released Torso NXT, a portable ultrasound probe for its Kosmos platform, with built in AI features and a replaceable wired cable.

Oct 19, 2026

Fabarta Upgrades AI for Science Platform With RSI Engine

Fabarta has upgraded its AI for Science platform with an RSI engine that connects materials research, experiments, pilot scale trials and industrial production.

Oct 19, 2026

Korea University Uses AI to Find Potential Antiviral Compounds

Korea University researchers used AI and laboratory testing to identify three molecular fragments that inhibit DHPS, a human enzyme involved in viral replication.

Oct 19, 2026

Notable Introduces Flow Compass for Healthcare AI Workflows

Flow Compass lets healthcare teams build, test, monitor and manage AI workflow automation through conversational queries.

Oct 19, 2026

MegaRobo Launches AI Protein Design Competition

Poreva Open will test more than 10,000 AI generated protein designs through standardized wet lab experiments and publish the resulting data.

Oct 19, 2026

Helfie AI and Health Innovation South West to Test Smartphone Hypertension Screening

Helfie AI and Health Innovation South West will evaluate smartphone based hypertension screening in health care settings, with a focus on people who face barriers to traditional services.

Oct 19, 2026

NTL HEALTHCARE Presents CerviCARE AI in South Africa

NTL HEALTHCARE presented its cervical screening system at WHX Johannesburg and held discussions about adoption in South Africa.

Oct 19, 2026

Ultima Genomics to Sequence 80,000 Samples for UK Biobank Immune Study

Ultima Genomics will provide its UG200 sequencing platform for a study that will create an AI foundation dataset from 80,000 UK Biobank blood samples.

Oct 19, 2026

GPT-5 Missed 27.5% of Confirmed Pediatric Growth Plate Fractures

GPT-5 failed to identify 221 of 805 confirmed pediatric growth plate fractures in a study of anonymized X rays.

Oct 19, 2026

HistoIndex and A*STAR Partner on Fibrosis Drug Evaluation

HistoIndex and A*STAR will use quantitative tissue analysis to evaluate therapeutic candidates for fibrotic diseases during preclinical research.

Oct 18, 2026

STPI Hosts AI Healthcare Conclave at IIT BHU

Software Technology Parks of India and IIT BHU's entrepreneurship center held a conclave in Varanasi focused on AI applications in healthcare and assistive technology.

Oct 17, 2026

Masimo Gets FDA Clearance for AFib Detection on Radius VSM

Masimo received FDA 510(k) clearance for an atrial fibrillation detection feature on its Radius VSM patient monitor. The feature continuously analyzes pulse waveform data and identifies rhythms that may require further evaluation.

Oct 16, 2026

Study Tests Smartphone AI for Children's Lung Sounds

Researchers developed a deep learning framework that adapts electronic stethoscope data to detect abnormal lung sounds in smartphone recordings.