Nvidia-backed AI startup SandboxAQ creates new data to speed up drug discovery
On Jun. 18, 2025, SandboxAQ, an artificial intelligence startup spun out of Alphabet’s Google and backed by Nvidia…
Japan draws up $700 Million Fund to attract foreign researchers
On Jun. 13, 2025, the Japanese government unveiled a 100 billion yen ($700 million) policy package designed to…
LinusBio Launches Groundbreaking ClearStrand-ASD to aid Health Care Providers in Ruling Out Autism Using a Single Strand of Hair
On Jun. 5, 2025, LinusBio announced ClearStrand-ASD™, a first-of-its-kind diagnostic aid for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ClearStrand-ASD is…
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Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’
On Jun. 4, 2025, the Center for Scientific Integrity — the non-profit organization that runs Retraction Watch —…
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FDA Launches Agency-Wide AI Tool to Optimize Performance
On Jun. 2, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces it has launched Elsa, a generative…
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Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records
On My 7, 2025, researchers at the University College London (UCL) and King’s College London announced that an…
EMA Uses AI to Leverage the power of data for public and animal health
On May 7, 2025, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have published…
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Europe pledges half a billion euros to lure scientists as Trump battles universities
On May 5, 2025, The European Union (EU) and France announced half a billion euros worth of incentives…
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NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
On May 1, 2025, the staff members at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) were told to “stop…
Scientists complete largest wiring diagram and functional map of the brain to date
On Apr. 9, 2025, a team of neuro scientists scientists published findings from the Machine Intelligence from Cortical…
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National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology Urges Swift Action to Protect U.S. National Security
On Apr. 8, 2025, the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology delivered its major report and action plan…
Europe steps up recruitment of U.S. scientists
On April 3, France’s Université Paris-Saclay said it is one of dozens of European institutions ramping up efforts…
SickKids launched trailblazing artificial intelligence program for paediatric health
On Mar. 27, 2025, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) announced it is harnessing the transformative potential of…
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75% of U.S. scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
On Mar. 27, 2025, a Nature survey of more than 1,200 scientists, three-quarters of the total respondents are…
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Rice labs tapped for brain research by UK funding agency with multimillion-dollar awards
On Jan. 21, 2025, Rice University announced that four research groups are part of an inaugural cohort of…
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U.S. Implements New Export Controls to Address National Security Risks Related to Biotechnology
On Jan. 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released an Interim…
iBio Discovers Novel Antibody Targeting Activin E in Collaboration with AstralBio
On Jan. 7, 2025, IBIO an AI-driven innovator of precision antibody immunotherapies, in collaboration with AstralBio announced the…
AI can improve ovarian cancer diagnoses
On Jan. 2, 2025, an international study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that AI-based…
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National Academies of Sciences Report Addresses Misinformation About Science
On Dec. 18, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences released a report showing the current information ecosystem makes…
AI-Based Tool Offers Exciting Advancement in Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostics
On Dec. 12, 2024, a study co-lead by researchers from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital…
Virtual lab powered by ‘AI scientists’ super-charges life Science research
On Dec. 4, 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, in an effort to automate scientific discovery announced they have…
AI can predict study results better than human experts
On Nov. 27, 2024, a study led by the University College London reported that large language models, a…
Human Cell Atlas achieved leap in understanding of the human body
On Nov. 20, 2024, researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium reported significant progress in their…
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UW–Madison researchers find persistent problems with AI-assisted genomic studies
On Nov. 4, 2024, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers warned that artificial intelligence tools gaining popularity…
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design”; Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”
On Oct. 9, 2024, the Nobel Foundation awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: one half to David Baker,…
Researchers used AI to Repurpose Existing Drugs for Treatment of Rare Diseases
On Sept. 25, 2024, a study led by scientists at Harvard Medical School announced they had developed an…
Artificial intelligence improved lung cancer diagnosis
On Aug. 23, 2024, A team of researchers from the University of Cologne announced they had created a…
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Biden announced $150 million in research grants as part of his ‘moonshot’ push to fight cancer
On Aug. 13, 2024, President Joe Biden announced $150 million in awards from the Advanced Research Projects Agency…
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HHMI Invested $500 Million in AI-Driven Life Sciences Research
On Aug. 12, 2024, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced AI@HHMI, a $500 million investment over the…
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BioMADE to Establish Bioindustrial Manufacturing Infrastructure in Minnesota
On Jun. 13, 2024, BioMADE announced an investment in a state-of-the-art bioindustrial manufacturing infrastructure in Minnesota, following support…