Biotech & Health

US pharma giant Cencora says Americans’ health information stolen in data breach

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U.S. pharmaceutical giant Cencora says it is notifying affected individuals that their personal and highly sensitive medical information was stolen during a cyberattack and data breach earlier this year.  In letters to affected individuals sent out this week, Cencora said that the data from its systems includes patient names, their postal address and date of […]

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IndieBio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises

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IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups. We took special note of a few, which were making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims that could pay off in a big way. Biotech has been creeping out in recent years to touch adjacent industries, as companies find how much

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Strava taps AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, unveils ‘family’ plan, dark mode and more

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Strava on Thursday announced a slew of new features and updates at its annual Camp Strava event, as the San Francisco-headquartered company doubles down on efforts to make its social fitness app stickier both for free and premium subscribers — with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a central role. One of the perennial complaints emanating from the

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Google expands hands-free and eyes-free interfaces on Android

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As part of 2024’s Accessibility Awareness Day, Google is showing off some updates to Android that should be useful to folks with mobility or vision impairments. Project Gameface allows gamers to use their faces to move the cursor and perform common click-like actions on desktop, and now it’s coming to Android. The project lets people

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Dietitian startup Fay has been booming from Ozempic patients and emerges from stealth with $25M from General Catalyst, Forerunner

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For years, Sammy Faycurry has been hearing from his registered dietitian (RD) mom and sister about how poorly many Americans eat and their struggles with delivering nutritional counseling. Although nearly half of all adults in the country are affected by chronic conditions linked to unhealthy diets, health plans have a limited number of in-network registered

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Triomics raises $15M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching

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For cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. But despite thousands of trials in the United States each year, only 3% to 5% of eligible patients enroll in investigations of new treatments. Triomics, a generative AI startup, claims it can significantly reduce the time it takes doctors to match

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Google DeepMind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app

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Google DeepMind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not only more accurate, but predicts interactions with other biomolecules, making it a far more versatile research tool — and the company is putting a limited version of

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Axmed raises $2M from Founderful to streamline drug supply chains in underserved markets

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It is estimated that about 2 billion people, especially those in lower and middle-income countries, lack access to quality and affordable essential medicines. The situation is exacerbated by low-quality or even killer counterfeit drugs that fill the gap. This shortfall means diseases that are otherwise treatable or preventable end up causing distress and even death.

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Sperm whale ‘alphabet’ discovered, thanks to machine learning

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Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale “alphabet” with the aid of machine learning technologies. Results from the study, which were published under the title, “Contextual and Combinatorial Structure in Sperm Whale Vocalizations,” point to key breakthroughs in our understanding of cetacean communication. The study

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