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News for the month June 2026
Funding & IPO
- GRAIL Completes $110 Million Equity Financing With Samsung Entities
- **Clair Health Raises $11.6 Million to Develop Continuous Hormone Monitoring Wearable Clair Health’s $11.6 million funding highlights a major shift toward AI-powered, continuous, noninvasive hormone monitoring that could make women’s health more personalized and data-driven—provided the company’s machine learning models can reliably infer hormone changes from wearable sensor data.
- **Element Biosciences Announces Upsized Series E (including $175 million from longstanding investor Samsung Electronics, and an undisclosed amount from other investors) to Accelerate Global Growth Across Ecosystem of Genomic, Multiomic, and Clinical Research Solutions
- Big Pharma-backed SonoThera sounds off with $125M series B for bubble-based genetic delivery The capital pushes its lead Duchenne muscular dystrophy program and an autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease candidate toward the clinic.
- Triveni Bio Raises $65 Million Series C Financing to Expand Scope of First-in-Class Bispecific TRIV-573 Clinical Studies and Drive Next-Stage Company Growth
- Ethyreal Bio Emerges from Stealth with $101 Million in Financing to Advance ETHY-001, a Potentially Best-in-Class Anti-TSHR Antibody for Thyroid Eye Disease and Graves’ Disease
- Mammogen Secures Up to $30 Million Series A Financing to Advance RNA-Based Breast Cancer Detection Platform
- **Anti-aging startup NewLimit raised $435 million in Series C funding on June 2, 2026, at a $3.1 billion valuation The biggest raise of the month, and not by a little. NewLimit — the longevity company backed by Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong — closed a $435 million Series C led by Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, and Greenoaks, with Kleiner Perkins, Eli Lilly Ventures, and others joining
- City Therapeutics Announces $99.5 Million Series B Financing to Advance Next-Generation RNAi Therapeutics
- Merck KGaA pledges $50M to build new cardio biotech with eye to later acquisition
- Sanger scientists to receive major grants from the European Research Council
- **Sangamo Therapeutics Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy – Enters Into Asset Sale Agreements with Lilly and Astellas
- Contraline, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel male contraceptives, announced the closing of a $92.5 million Series B financing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Precision Medicine
- German Brain Disease Center to Sequence 25K Genomes A globally unparalleled data base aims to advance research into brain disorders
- Abu Dhabi Biobank, BioTwin unite to advance AI in healthcare
- The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Novartis Middle East to explore collaboration in genomics research, scientific capacity building, and advanced therapies.
- Genomics Launches the Mystra AI Platform, Adopted by Industry Giants and Up-and-Coming Biotechs
- Tempus Announces Research Collaboration with Angiosarcoma Awareness, Inc. to Uncover Insights on Rare Cancers
- **WHO advances precision medicine as a global health priority The WHO adopted a resolution in May 2026 to integrate precision medicine — combining genomic, molecular, and clinical data for personalized care — into global health systems, with a focus on equity, ethics, and access in low- and middle-income countries.
AL / ML / DL / GenAI / LLM / ChatGPT/Agentic A
- **Anthropic releases Claude Science, a product aimed at researchers, the pharma industry
- **Insilico Medicine, SK Biopharmaceuticals strike AI drug discovery deal valued at $2.5 billion targeting neuroimmune therapies
- With $15M discovery deal, Boehringer becomes latest Big Pharma to buy into Immunai’s AI platform
- **Insilico Medicine And SK Biopharmaceuticals Achieved AI-powered Drug Discovery Collaboration Worth Up to 2.5 Billion for Neuroimmune Disorders
- Microsoft, Mayo Clinic plan to build frontier AI model for healthcare
- **After hospitals, patients get a turn to bring AI into the doctor’s office Developers pitch their patient apps as diligent note-takers to keep track of encounters across the health system
- Nvidia Is Developing an AI Healthcare Model With Startup Abridge The chip giant is joining with the maker of AI note-taking technology to train a model tailored for clinical conversations
Everything Data: RWE/RWD, Clinico-Genomic Data, Knowledge Graph, EHR, Data Platforms
- **The Invisible Infrastructure: Bio-IT World Panel Warns of a Slow-Motion Crisis in Biomedical Data Researchers are warning that cuts to publicly funded biomedical data infrastructure threaten the foundation of AI-driven drug discovery, innovation, and future healthcare unless these critical resources are protected.
- Cell-type-specific proximity labeling of organ secretomes reveals energy balance-dependent proteomic remodeling The study maps a hidden communication network between organs
Miscellaneous
- **First use of precision editing to study human embryo development reveals role of master gene Study sheds light on early development, but also sparks concerns
- Natera Faces Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Misleading Genetic Testing Claims (GenomeWeb)
- Colossal and the US Government Are Creating an Endangered Species ‘BioVault’ Colossal Bio, US Fish and Wildlife Service to Sequence, Archive Genomes of 2,300 Endangered Species
- Natera’s Signatera™ Receives Regulatory Approval in Japan for Colorectal Cancer
- AI Drug Discovery Reaches Clinical Proof at BIO 2026: China Beat the BIOSECURE Act to Science (BIO San Diego)
- **US Immigration Policies Fuel Fear of Life Science Brain Drain, Survey Shows (GenomeWeb)
- Regeneron’s Cemdisiran Regulatory Submissions Accepted for Review by FDA and EMA for the Treatment of Generalized Myasthenia Gravis (gMG)
- FDA Approves Oral Antiviral to Prevent COVID-19 After Exposure
- How Eli Lilly Got Huge By Making Us Thin
- Google unveils smartphone camera-based heart rate monitoring system
- Apple’s Health app can now tell you if you’re in perimenopause
- 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Awarded for Gene-Editing Therapies
Publications
- **Biological aging and generational shifts in early-onset cancer risk The study highlighted a generational aging shift:
People born in 1965–1974 showed a 23% higher “age gap” (biological age ahead of chronological age) compared to those born in 1950–1954. This pattern held in both the UK and US cohorts, and was steeper in women than men. - General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks
- **Single-cell map of the healthy human immune system across the lifespan reveals unique infant immune signatures Using scRNA-seq and snATAC-seq across 167 healthy individuals from infancy to age 105, this study builds the most comprehensive single-cell immune atlas of the human lifespan to date — revealing how key populations like CD8⁺ T cells, MAIT cells, and γδ T cells are systematically remodeled with age. A standout finding is that infants and the oldest-old share distinct immune signatures that likely explain their common vulnerability to infection and poor vaccine responses, with implications for age-tailored therapeutic and immunization strategies.
- **Mapping the neuronal building blocks of human language with language models Researchers discover single-cell brain activity that underlies human speech
- Future Prospects for Omics Sciences: Expanding the Boundaries of Systems Biology This review organizes established and emerging omics into a structured framework, highlighting conceptual innovations such as adaptomics, resiliomics, chrono-adaptomics, and signalomics. It discusses technological advances, computational strategies, and potential applications for research and clinical practice.
- SF3B1 phosphorylation is an evolutionarily conserved step in spliceosome activation carried out by the divergent, OTS964-insensitive kinase CRK9 in trypanosomes This antisense RNA was designated as a “Breakthrough Article” by Nucleic Acids Research
- Multi-omics and artificial intelligence for precision drug discovery and potential clinical applications
News for the month May 2026
May highlighted the accelerating convergence of AI, precision medicine, genomics, and drug discovery.
Major investments continued to flow into AI-driven biology, led by Isomorphic Labs’ $2.1 billion raise, while Eli Lilly expanded aggressively into infectious disease through three acquisitions worth up to $3.8 billion and Roche strengthened its digital pathology portfolio with its planned acquisition of PathAI.
Artificial intelligence remained a dominant theme throughout the month. New partnerships (BMS taps Anthropic’s Claude; Incyte and Edison Scientific announce collaboration; AZ pens agentic AI licensing deal with Owkin; Elsevier introduces SciBite Chat), foundation models, and AI-powered platforms continued to move from experimentation toward practical deployment across research and healthcare. At the same time, growing attention was placed on interpretability, transparency, and trust as AI systems become increasingly involved in scientific and clinical decision-making.
Notable scientific publications included studies linking sleep duration to biological aging across multiple organ systems, single-cell analyses revealing how sex influences immune function, advances in pangenome annotation through KaryoScope, and large-scale research showing how rare variants, polygenic background, and environmental factors interact to shape complex traits. Lastly, notable scientific advances also included encouraging clinical data from Verve Therapeutics’ VERVE-102, demonstrating the potential of in vivo base editing to permanently lower LDL cholesterol through a one-time treatment, highlighting the growing promise of gene editing as a preventative approach to common chronic diseases.
Together, these developments reinforce a clear trend: AI is becoming an integral part of the infrastructure that powers modern biology, drug discovery, and precision medicine.
Funding & IPO
- Latus Bio Announces $97 Million Series A Financing to Expand the Reach of Gene Therapy to Larger Populations
- XCaliber Health scores $6.5M for workflow platform XCaliber Health, a company offering an agentic AI platform aimed at reducing administrative burden in healthcare, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to scale its platform nationwide.
- DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 billion to design drugs with AI
- Dandelion Health raises $14M for precision medicine platform
- **Iterative Health banks $77m to level up AI-driven clinical research tech The Google Ventures-backed health technology company will now expand its platform into burgeoning therapeutic areas like cardiology and obesity.
Mergers & Acquisitions
- **Lilly announces three acquisitions to build infectious disease portfolio Eli Lilly is acquiring Curevo, LimmaTech Biologics, and Vaccine Company to build a diversified infectious disease portfolio spanning shingles, antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections, and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), with a combined potential deal value of approximately $3.8 billion.
- Roche to acquire digital pathology firm PathAI for up to $1.05B Roche plans to offer PathAI’s tools as part of an effort to improve cancer diagnosis and tailored treatment.
- InSphero AG Acquires PhenoVista Biosciences, Inc. to Expand Advanced 3D, Cell-based Assay Capabilities
Partnerships
- Helio Genomics Announces Strategic Commercial Partnership with Syneos Health® to Accelerate Nationwide Adoption of HelioLiver™, A Breakthrough AI-Powered Blood Test for Early Liver Cancer Detection
Precision Medicine
- Tempus Launches the PRECISION Challenge, a National Program Opening Its Foundation Model Work to the Broader Research Community
- **World Health Assembly endorses resolution on precision medicine
- Mayo Clinic and Stanford researchers develop first blood test to map tumor “neighborhoods,” improving prediction of therapy response
- Personalis Secures Fourth Medicare Coverage Decision for NeXT Personal®, Expanding Breast Cancer Coverage to Pre-Surgical Treatment Monitoring
- FDA Approves Genentech’s Tecentriq for Adjuvant Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer With ctDNA-Guided Treatment
- Precision Medicine’s Next Hurdle Isn’t Science — It’s Execution A new UPMC report found that while most health systems now offer precision medicine programs, many still face challenges scaling them due to reimbursement, data integration and patient engagement issues. Health system leaders say the field’s future depends on embedding genomics into routine care, as well as proving its clinical and financial value.
Diagnostics / Genomic / Genetic Testing / CDx
- GRAIL Presents PATHFINDER 2 Results of More Than 35,000 Participants Showing the Galleri® Test Substantially Increased Cancer Detection With Robust Performance and Favorable Safety (ASCO)
- Datar Cancer Genetics Receives FDA Clearance for CellDx-Tissue, a Comprehensive Genomic Profiling Assay for Solid Tumors Using DNA + RNA
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves FoundationOne®CDx as a Companion Diagnostic for TEPMETKO® (tepotinib) to Identify Patients with MET Exon 14 Skipping Alterations in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Scientists play catch-up to startling Ebola outbreak Testing, sequencing, and clinical trial efforts spring to life as Bundibugyo virus spreads
- FDA Approves New Guardant360 Liquid CDx, the Largest FDA-Approved Liquid Biopsy Panel with a 100x Expanded Footprint
(Omics) Data Platform / Sequencing / Analysis / Instruments
- **Illumina introduces the first distributed whole-genome sequencing solution for highly sensitive MRD research
- QIAGEN to advance AI-driven drug discovery with graph-based AI and curated bioinformatics knowledge with NVIDIA
- Sentieon Segdup-caller: Technical Analysis and Accuracy Validation for Variant Detection in Medically Relevant Genes with High-Homology Segmental Duplication
Spatial Omics
- 10x Genomics Predicts Cannibalization of Spatial Instrument Sales with Atera The single cell and spatial biology firm reported Q1 revenue of $150.8 million, compared to $154.9 million a year ago, a decrease of 3 percent year over year.
Gene Editing
Longevity, Health Span, and Life Expectancy
Miscellaneous
- Moderna and Merck Halt Key mRNA Skin Cancer Trial: What Investors Should Know
- Genedata Introduces AI-Native CMC Platform to Accelerate Drug Development and Manufacturing
- The Fight for Research Integrity Needs You Elisabeth Bik has built a career exposing problematic papers. Now she is asking analytical scientists to apply the same scrutiny to their own fields.
- **10x Genomics settles suit with rival and targets DNA sequencing startup
- **Element Biosciences Responds to 10x Genomics Patent Infringement Complaint
- **ARUP Laboratories Launches National Infectious Disease Test Positivity Trends Dashboard
- 36 New Products at Bio-IT World 2026
- **BEVIMI Launches Uno Protect, a Patent-Pending Liquid Brain Health Formulation with Ten Clinically Studied Actives
- Healthcare bankruptcies up 33% in Q1 2026: report However, the report (PDF) notes such filings are in line with the seven-year quarterly average.
- **FDA withdrew studies finding Covid and shingles vaccines were safe The Food and Drug Administration blocked the publication of several studies supporting the safety of vaccines against Covid and shingles in recent months
- Supreme Court temporarily restores ability to receive abortion drug mifepristone by mail
AL / ML / DL / GenAI / LLM / ChatGPT/Agentic AI
- A Working Map of Foundation Models in Healthcare and Life Sciences Provides a practical framework for understanding where AI foundation models are creating real value across biology, chemistry, and clinical medicine, helping researchers, biotech companies, and investors navigate an increasingly crowded and confusing AI landscape. More importantly, it highlights that the future challenge is no longer just building more powerful models, but ensuring they are interpretable, trustworthy, and safe enough to support high-stakes scientific and clinical decisions.
- BMS taps Anthropic’s Claude for enterprise-wide AI adoption to speed R&D, global workflows
- Incyte and Edison Scientific Announce Strategic Collaboration to Employ the Kosmos AI Platform for Research and Development
- AstraZeneca pens agentic AI licensing deal with Owkin
- **Google’s $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
- **Elsevier Introduces SciBite Chat, a transformative AI-Powered Semantic Search Tool for Life Sciences R&D (Bio-IT 2026)
- OpenAI wants to ‘have their cake and eat it too’ with health AI policy recommendations The AI company’s proposals sound responsible but are self-interested, experts say
- Hims & Hers debuts its first AI care agent to interpret biomarker lab results
Publications
- Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life This study is important because it provides some of the strongest evidence to date that both too little (<6 hours) and too much (>8 hours) sleep are associated with accelerated biological aging across multiple organs and increased risks of diseases such as depression, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and premature death, with the healthiest aging profiles occurring at roughly 6.5–7.8 hours of sleep per night. For longevity research, it moves the discussion beyond simple sleep recommendations by linking sleep duration directly to multi-omics and organ-specific aging clocks, suggesting that sleep may be a modifiable factor influencing biological age itself.
- **The impact of sex on the immune system explored at the single-cell level
- KaryoScope: rapid, alignment-free sequence annotation for the pangenome era This paper introduces KaryoScope, a fast, alignment-free genome annotation tool designed for the new “pangenome era,” where researchers are generating huge numbers of complete human genomes faster than traditional annotation methods can handle. It can rapidly identify and map difficult, highly variable genomic regions — such as centromeres and subtelomeres — revealing previously hidden structural variations linked to diseases like facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and chromosomal rearrangements important for human genetics and clinical research.
- **In Vivo Base Editing of PCSK9 with VERVE-102 for Hypercholesterolemia
- ** Boy’s brain tumor tied to gene therapy Researchers report first cancer caused by virus widely used to deliver genes, but say risk is low
- **The association of time-restricted eating and indices of organ-specific aging in relation to metabolic health and obesity
- Combinatorial effects of gene dosage, polygenic background and environment on complex traits Study shows, in more than 1.4 million people, how rare genetic variants (CNVs), common genetic risk factors, and environmental influences combine to shape complex traits like height and body weight, revealing that while many effects are additive, important gene-specific interactions and biological buffering mechanisms also exist.
News for the month April 2026
April saw strong momentum across AI, precision medicine, and life sciences, with the convergence of intelligent systems, advanced data platforms, and next-generation diagnostics becoming more evident. In AI, activity is accelerating—from OpenAI outlining its healthcare ambitions and launching GPT-Rosalind, to broader adoption of agentic AI across enterprise and clinical settings. At the same time, increased regulatory scrutiny highlights the need for safe deployment. New research also reinforces AI’s growing role in drug discovery, particularly in target identification.
In parallel, genomics and data-driven medicine continue to advance. Efforts like Tempus collaborating with Predicta Biosciences are expanding access to ultrasensitive sequencing, while Tempus’ partnership with Gilead underscores the importance of real-world data in oncology R&D. Across the ecosystem, new platforms and datasets are enabling more precise, personalized care.
Meanwhile, the broader landscape is evolving alongside these innovations. A collaboration between Paradigm Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could modernize clinical trial review and accelerate approvals. The passing of J. Craig Venter also marks a significant moment for the genomics field. Together, these trends highlight a future driven by the integration of AI, biology, and data.
Funding / IPO
- Fathom Therapeutics, Formerly Atommap, Raises $47 Million in Oversubscribed Series A Financing to Translate Physics and AI-Enabled Small Molecule Design into Next-Generation Medicines
- Almanac Health Raises $10 Million to Empower Clinicians Across Specialties with Safe, Research-Validated Clinical AI
- Aidoc Raises $150 Million Series E Led by Goldman Sachs to Scale Clinical AI for Earlier, Safer Diagnoses
- AcuityMD raises $80M to help bolster AI in the medtech industry
- Oak HC/FT backs Courier Health’s $50M series B to build out AI for the biopharma patient experience
- Almanac Health: $10 Million Raised For Research-Validated Clinical AI Platform Empowering Clinicians
- Ultralight Raises $9.3M to Arm Doctors in Personalized Medicine Revolt
- Acurion: $4.3 Million Raised For AI-Driven Precision Oncology Platform
(Omics) Data Platform / Sequencing / Analysis / Instruments
- PacBio and Lucid Genomics Announce Compatibility Collaboration to Advance Tertiary Analysis for Long-Read Sequencing
- PacBio and Covaris Announce Joint Workflow Enabling HiFi Long-Read Sequencing of FFPE Tumor Samples
- DRAGEN v4.5 supports Illumina’s new TruPath Genome and 5-base assays, drives insights across germline, oncology, and multiomic workflows
- Ultima Genomics releases groundbreaking TRACERx MRD data showing ppmSeq performance and unveils clinical progress of whole genome sequencing (AACR 2026)
- Caris Life Sciences Announces Launch of Caris ChromoSeq, the World’s First Whole Genome and Whole Transcriptome Tumor Profiling Assay for Myeloid Malignancies
Precision Medicine
- The Lab Catches Up to the Clinic: How Functional Precision Oncology Goes Beyond Genomics
- **Paradigm Health Announces Collaboration with the FDA to Transform Regulatory Review of Clinical Trial Data The collaboration between Paradigm Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could modernize how clinical trial data is reviewed, potentially speeding up approvals for new drugs and therapies. By applying advanced data tools or AI to regulatory workflows, it may reduce bottlenecks, improve consistency, and bring treatments to patients faster.
Diagnostics / Genomic / Genetic Testing / CDx
- MyGevity Announces Nationwide Launch of Integrated Health Data Platform
- Diagnostics investments and disease burden Regulatory and payment policies could facilitate investment and innovation in diagnostics
- **Tempus and Predicta Biosciences Announce Collaboration to Expand Life Sciences Access to Ultrasensitive Whole-Genome Sequencing Assay for Hematologic Malignancies and MRD Monitoring
AL / ML / DL / GenAI / LLM / ChatGPT/Agentic AI
- **OpenAI’s head of health lays out the AI giant’s healthcare ambitions
- **Utah medical board calls for immediate suspension of state’s AI doctor experiment
- Merck and Google Cloud Partner to Accelerate Agentic AI Enterprise TransformationLongevity, Health Span, and Life Expectancy
- Elephas Biosciences and Mithrl Pair Real-Time Tumor Profiling with Agentic AI to Unlock New Immunotherapy Response Insights
- Catalyst Precision Health Launches the First Longevity Service for Men to Combine In-Home Lab Testing, Physician House Calls, and Continuous Personalized Care
- **OpenAI launches AI model GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research The model aims to accelerate early-stage scientific discovery by helping researchers analyze data, generate hypotheses, and access scientific tools, and is available as a research preview through select OpenAI platforms.
Everything Data: RWE/RWD, Clinico-Genomic Data, Knowledge Graph, EHR, Data Platforms
- **Tempus Announces Strategic Collaboration with Gilead to Advance Oncology R&D Through RWE
- Verana Health Introduces World’s Largest Real-World Dataset for Prostate Cancer
- Truveta unveils Truveta Intelligence, delivering real-time insights from real-world data
Longevity, Health Span, and Life Expectancy
- GB HealthWatch Launches AI-Ready Genetic Reports for the GB Longevity100 Suite
- Longevity Science Is Overhyped. But This Research Really Could Change Humanity – A NY Times article – A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging.
Miscellaneous
- **J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79 NY Times article
- Tempus Named to TIME’s 10 Most Influential Health and Life Science Companies of 2026
- Synthego Welcomes Supreme Court Order Finalizing Invalidation of Agilent CRISPR Patents
- Amazon launches GLP-1 program as gaps in care emerge
- Former deputy surgeon general Erica Schwartz nominated as new CDC chief
Publications
- Genetic predictors of GLP1 receptor agonist weight loss and side effects
- **Target identification and assessment in the era of AI Comprehensive review emphasizes key considerations in target selection, summarizes breakthroughs in the application of AI-driven approaches for therapeutic target exploration, and highlights clinical-stage successes in which AI played a pivotal role in target identification.
- Targeted long-read RNA sequencing for rare disease diagnosis and variant interpretation Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) developed a new RNA sequencing strategy that can reveal how genetic variants disrupt gene function and improve the diagnosis of rare diseases. The study team demonstrated that this platform could reveal disease-causing genetic variants and provide molecular diagnoses for previously undiagnosed patients, including five individuals whose conditions had remained unresolved after standard testing.
- Sequence Display enables large-scale sequence–activity datasets for rapid protein evolution Sequence Display can generate more than 10 million data points in a single experiment. These data points are then fed into protein language AI models, which use them to predict which changes to a protein’s amino acids will create the desired change for the protein’s activity or function.
- The circadian gene Dec2 promotes pancreatic cancer progression and dormancy through immune evasion Genetic discovery may explain why pancreatic cancer is so difficult to treat
News for the month March 2026
Funding / IPO
AL / ML / DL / GenAI / LLM / ChatGPT/Agentic AI
- **Microsoft unveils Copilot Health as an AI health companion for consumers Copilot Health is an AI assistant for consumers that can review medical records, help them prepare for doctor appointments and offer personalized insights based on their health data
- **AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare
- Quest Diagnostics launches Google-powered AI chatbot to help patients understand lab results
- HHS bans Claude AI tool as Trump seeks full government blacklisting of Anthropic
Miscellaneous
- **Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online The UK Biobank holds the medical records of 500,000 British volunteers, and is one of the world’s most comprehensive stores of health information and is credited with driving breakthroughs in cancer, dementia and diabetes research. It turns out confidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investigation can reveal, raising questions about the safeguarding of patient records by one of the UK’s flagship medical research projects.
- **White House lifts hold on NIH research spending
Publications
News for the month February 2026
Funding / IPO
- **Syndex Bio Unveils mcPCR Technology at AGBT 2026 Following $15.5M Seed Financing (AGBT 2026)
- Barshop Institute to receive up to $38 million from ARPA-H, anchoring UT San Antonio as a national leader in aging and healthy longevity science
- Beam Therapeutics Announces $500 Million Strategic Financing Facility with Sixth Street
- Brainomix Extends Series C Financing to $25.4M (£18.8M) to Support U.S. Expansion
- Women’s health clinic Midi Health closes $100M series D as it aims to scale a national healthcare company
- Cancer Detection Startup Secures $4M to Expand Access in Underserved Communities
- **Carbon Health files for bankruptcy, seeking to sell or restructure
- Coral Care closes $13M Series A for developmental pediatric therapy
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Nexus Precision Health Acquires Leal Health to Accelerate Precision Medicine at Scale
- Scantox Acquires DuplexSeq™ Nonclinical Genomics Safety Business from TwinStrand Biosciences
- **Complete Genomics Enters Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Swiss Rockets AG
- ProPhase Labs Initiates Potential Sale or Strategic Partnership of BE-Smart™ and Advances Crown Medical Collections Initiative
(Omics) Data Platform / Sequencing / Analysis / Instruments (AGBT 2026)
- Illumina
- **Illumina unveils roadmap of groundbreaking NovaSeq X advancements in data quality, output, speed, and flexibility
- **Illumina launches TruPath Genome, setting a new standard in genomic insight
- Illumina partners go beyond the genome, driving cancer breakthroughs using spatial transcriptomics, epigenomics, and proteomics
- **Complete Genomics announced it is commencing shipments of DNBSEQ-T7+
- **Element Biosciences Introduces VITARI™, Redefining What High-Throughput Sequencing Makes Possible
- **Ultima Genomics Introduces the Next Generation of Sequencing at Scale with the Launch of the UG200™ Series and Next Generation Solaris 2.0 Workflows Delivering Higher Output, Better Performance and More Flexible Wafer Configurations
- Bruker to Enable Complete High-Fidelity Spatial Biology Across the Biological Spectrum
- Takara Bio USA, Inc. Collaborates with Illumina on Spatial Transcriptomics Workflow
- biomodal and Element Biosciences Combine Duet Multiomic and High-Throughput Sequencing Capabilities
- Volta Labs Announces Major Product Launches and Industry-Shaping Partnerships with Roche and Watchmaker Genomics
- seqWell Announces Launch of MosaiX™ DNA Library Prep Kit for High Performance NGS Applications
- CoolMPS™ 600: Accurate and Affordable Long MPS/NGS Reads on a Mid-Throughput Platform
- Integrated DNA Technologies Unveils NGS Innovation Roadmap to Accelerate the Future of Cancer Research
- **Watchmaker Genomics Licenses CRISPR-Cas9 Intellectual Property from Caribou Biosciences to Increase Throughput and Reduce Sequencing Cost per Sample
- New England Biolabs® launches Monarch® Mag Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Extraction Kit to enable scalable, reproducible cfDNA isolation from biofluids
- Twist Bioscience Launches Next-Generation Library Preparation Kits Powered by Proprietary Enzymes
Diagnostics / Genomic / Genetic Testing / CDx
Precision Medicine
- Facing Regulatory Scrutiny, Hims & Hers Withdraws Knockoff Obesity Pill
- Landmark NHS-Galleri Trial Demonstrates a Substantial Reduction in Stage IV Cancer Diagnoses, Increased Stage I and II Detection of Deadly Cancers, and Four-Fold Higher Cancer Detection Rate
AL / ML / DL / GenAI / LLM / ChatGPT/Agentic AI
- Lotus Health nabs $35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free
- Epic launches AI Charting, potentially scrambling the ambient scribe market
- FDA taps AI executive to lead digital health center
Miscellaneous
- AGBT Names 2026 Next Gen Leadership Award Recipients for General Meeting (AGBT 2026)
- White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site TrumpRx
- **TrumpRx claims to offer the lowest prices. But many drugs have cheaper generics
- What’s Next for Proteomics, According to Industry Experts
- Eppendorf collaborates with Dubai Police to automate forensics laboratories
- Illumina and the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance partner to sequence the Frozen Zoo®, supporting critical conservation genetics efforts globally
Publications
- Multi-System Genetic Architecture of Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome: Integrating Machine Learning with Subject-Level Genomic Analysis
- From correlation to causation: cell-type-specific gene regulatory networks in Alzheimer’s disease Causal gene mapping identifies key drivers of Alzheimer’s disease progression
- Causal parametric language mapping with electrical stimulation during awake neurosurgery Study refines the limits of brain mapping
News for the month January 2026
Funding / IPO
- **OpenEvidence clinches $250M series D as AI platform sees explosive growth with doctors
- 2025 year-end digital health funding overview: A tale of two markets A Rock Health report
- Xella Health Raises $3.7 Million Pre-Seed to Launch Women’s Precision Health Platform
- Carna Health Secures $8 Million to Expand Access to Scalable Chronic Kidney Disease Screening Solutions Globally Funding to accelerate innovation and growth following strategic partnership with Siemens Healthineers
- RISA Labs Closes $11.1M Series A to Scale AI Operating System for Oncology Nationwide
- Flywheel Raises $27.5 Million And Expands Clinical Trial And Medical Device Offerings
- Protege Raises $30M Led by a16z to Unlock Access to Data for AI Development The company provides licensed, curated access to real-world and proprietary datasets across domains such as media, audio, and healthcare, supporting AI training and evaluation for major global AI companies.
- bit.bio secures $50 million Series C to scale human cell programming technology
Mergers & Acquisitions
- JPM26
- Novartis pays $50M for China biotech’s cancer therapy asset
- Johnson & Johnson makes a splash, buying out Intra-Cellular Therapies for $14.6B
- Strategist GSK acquires IDRx for $1B in hopes of bringing GIST patients new standard of care
- Modella AI Announces Acquisition by AstraZeneca to Advance AI-Driven Oncology R&D at Global Scale
- Eli Lilly strikes $2.5B Scorpion buyout in twist to breast cancer tale
- **OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch for $60 million
- Hippocratic AI acquires Grove AI, taps life sciences leaders to focus on biopharma, medtech
- **bioMérieux Acquires Accellix to Elevate Pharmaceutical Quality Control and Accelerate Advanced Therapies This strategic transaction, bioMérieux strengthens its Pharmaceutical Quality Control activity and invests in innovative solutions that will support the growing advanced therapy market and improve patient outcomes worldwide
Precision Medicine
(Omics) Data Platform / Sequencing / Analysis / Instruments
Diagnostics / Genomic / Genetic Testing / CDx
- **10x Genomics to Advance REsearch in Diagnostics Applications of Tumor Single Cell Profiling 10x announced clinical collaborations with two Boston-based institutions, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, as well as the New York-based Cancer Research Institute. The company also committed to building its own CLIA-certified laboratory within about a year, with the goal of enabling clinical deployment of diagnostics that will come up with these kinds of collaborations.
AL / ML / DL / GenAI / LLM / ChatGPT/Agentic AI
- JPM26
- **Lilly, Nvidia tag on partnership with new AI co-innovation lab, $1B investment
- **Anthropic joins OpenAI’s push into health care with new Claude tools Anthropic’s new offerings allow users and providers to work with medical data, mimicking similar moves by OpenAI.
- **OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health in a push to become a hub for personal health data
- FDA clears Aidoc tool to detect 14 different conditions from a CT scan It’s one of the first instances of the agency clearing an AI tool that looks for multiple conditions
- Amazon launches AI health-care tool for One Medical members
- Benchling and Lilly TuneLab Partner to Democratize Access to AI Models for Scientists Everywhere
- Revvity Collaborates with Lilly to Expand Access to AI Drug Discovery Models
- Exclusive: 40 million people turn to ChatGPT for health care
Miscellaneous
- Walmart dips its toe back into healthcare with new digital platform
- Trump releases health care plan amid pressure over affordability President’s plan is light on details, but could shape debate in Congress
- Amazon Pharmacy starts offering Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy weight loss pill
- FDA announces sweeping changes to oversight of wearables, AI-enabled devices The changes could allow unregulated generative artificial intelligence tools into clinical workflows
- **Illumina Appoints Dr. Eric Green as Chief Medical Officer
Publications
- De novo and inherited dominant variants in U4 and U6 snRNA genes cause retinitis pigmentosa
- **A single-cell atlas characterizes dysregulation of the bone marrow immune microenvironment associated with outcomes in multiple myeloma Researches developed an Immune Atlas of MM by generating profiles of 1,397,272 single cells from the bone marrow (BM) of 337 newly diagnosed participants and characterized immune and hematopoietic cell populations



