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AI-designed vaccine could protect against entire virus families

TechDefused Newsroom · 15:50, 5 Jun 2026

REPLIQA joins a crowded field betting that quantum computing can crack biology, but the science is further along than...

TechDefused Newsroom · 19:16, 11 May 2026

Mirror bacteria: the lab-made microbes scientists now fear could threaten all life on Earth

TechDefused Newsroom · 17:27, 20 Apr 2026

Amazon launches Bio Discovery AI for drug research

TechDefused Newsroom · 17:16, 15 Apr 2026

ONCOMATRYX raises $67m for Quantum ADC clinical trials

TechDefused Newsroom · 15:42, 30 Mar 2026

Roche deploys 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to embed AI across drug discovery and manufacturing

TechDefused Newsroom · 12:09, 17 Mar 2026

Microsoft trains AI model to convert standard pathology slides into protein maps

TechDefused Newsroom · 18:45, 16 Mar 2026

Google unveils new Gemini and Nano Banana model updates

TechDefused Newsroom · 17:29, 27 Feb 2026 · Updated 16:42, 28 Feb

Lilly inaugurates LillyPod AI supercomputer to accelerate drug discovery in Indianapolis

TechDefused Newsroom · 20:09, 26 Feb 2026

Palantir Beats The Street As It Upgrades Its Outlook

Ian Lyall · 21:41, 3 Nov 2025 · Updated 20:01, 25 Feb

Microsoft researcher says AI is learning the language of biology

TechDefused Newsroom · 19:32, 19 Dec 2025 · Updated 19:46, 25 Feb

Biobeat Technologies raises $50 million to accelerate US rollout of cuff-less blood pressure monitor

TechDefused Newsroom · 14:24, 31 Dec 2025 · Updated 19:43, 25 Feb

Longevity boom reshapes investment outlook as ageing populations stay healthier for longer

Ian Lyall · 15:44, 31 Dec 2025 · Updated 19:43, 25 Feb

Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy pill as knownwell joins NovoCare network

TechDefused Newsroom · 18:24, 5 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:40, 25 Feb

Bayer partners with Cradle to deploy AI platform across antibody research

TechDefused Newsroom · 20:36, 7 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:38, 25 Feb

Chai Discovery partners with Eli Lilly to accelerate biologics design with AI

TechDefused Newsroom · 18:03, 9 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:36, 25 Feb

Multiply Labs uses robotics and NVIDIA simulation to scale cell therapy manufacturing

TechDefused Newsroom · 21:15, 12 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:34, 25 Feb

NVIDIA expands BioNeMo platform as pharma groups commit up to $1bn to AI-driven drug discovery

TechDefused Newsroom · 21:18, 12 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:34, 25 Feb

Biological age tests explained: What they measure, what they miss, and how to read the results

Ian Lyall · 11:46, 18 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:30, 25 Feb

Lab-on-a-chip explained: Tiny microfluidic devices that could shrink the laboratory

Ian Lyall · 12:32, 18 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:30, 25 Feb

Digital twins in medicine and engineering: How to tell a useful tool from an expensive mirage

Ian Lyall · 12:57, 18 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:30, 25 Feb

CRISPR delivery explained: Why editing DNA is easier than getting the editor to the right cells

Ian Lyall · 16:17, 18 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:29, 25 Feb

Biofoundries explained: Inside the robot labs, engineering biology at industrial scale

Ian Lyall · 16:35, 18 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:29, 25 Feb

New antibiotics explained: Phages, bacteriocins and AI, and why none is a silver bullet

Ian Lyall · 16:47, 18 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:29, 25 Feb

The quiet revolution in protein design: Enzymes and binders made by algorithms, built in yeast

Ian Lyall · 16:30, 20 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:28, 25 Feb

Organoids on a chip: Miniature human tissues that are changing how drugs are tested

Ian Lyall · 16:40, 20 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:28, 25 Feb

Living medicines, strange ethics: the rise of engineered microbes that treat disease from the inside

Ian Lyall · 16:56, 20 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:28, 25 Feb

The cell’s postal service: How extracellular vesicles could become the next drug delivery revolution

Ian Lyall · 17:48, 20 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:28, 25 Feb

CRISPR’s next act: Editors that rewrite single letters without cutting the DNA

Ian Lyall · 18:01, 20 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:28, 25 Feb

Batteries, not brains: Bioelectricity and the new map of how bodies heal

Ian Lyall · 18:39, 20 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:28, 25 Feb

The immune system’s new teachers: Personalised cancer vaccines and the logistics of made-to-order medicine

Ian Lyall · 19:00, 20 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:28, 25 Feb

The end of antibiotics, again: phage therapy, bacteriocins, and precision antimicrobials

Ian Lyall · 22:03, 20 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:28, 25 Feb

Biology’s new supply chains: Why the future of biotech may be manufacturing, not discovery

Ian Lyall · 23:07, 20 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:28, 25 Feb

Google.org awards $20m to AI-led science projects tackling health, energy and biodiversity

TechDefused Newsroom · 19:17, 26 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:24, 25 Feb

10X Health and Verséa unveil mitochondrial test developed from NASA research

TechDefused Newsroom · 19:39, 26 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:24, 25 Feb

HBO Max unveils February slate of originals, films and live sports

TechDefused Newsroom · 20:31, 26 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:23, 25 Feb

MoltBot Explained: The viral AI agent formerly ClawdBot

Ian Lyall · 12:30, 28 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:21, 25 Feb

Hims & Hers to air national Big Game ad highlighting healthcare access gap

TechDefused Newsroom · 15:42, 29 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:19, 25 Feb

Eli Lilly to build $3.5bn weight-loss drug facility in Pennsylvania

TechDefused Newsroom · 20:19, 30 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:18, 25 Feb

Nvidia signals record OpenAI investment while distancing itself from $100bn figure

Ian Lyall · 18:26, 31 Jan 2026 · Updated 19:17, 25 Feb

First human trial of cellular reprogramming approved in bid to treat blindness

Ian Lyall · 15:35, 1 Feb 2026 · Updated 19:17, 25 Feb

Helus Pharma looks to lead a new approach to treating depression

Ian Lyall · 16:02, 1 Feb 2026 · Updated 19:17, 25 Feb

Pfizer’s new weight-loss drug may offer monthly alternative to Wegovy and Mounjaro

TechDefused Newsroom · 19:14, 3 Feb 2026 · Updated 19:15, 25 Feb

BrainChild project builds precision cancer treatment platform for children in Sweden

TechDefused Newsroom · 16:59, 5 Feb 2026 · Updated 19:13, 25 Feb

Novo Nordisk's terrible week reveals the brutal economics of the obesity drug gold rush

Ian Lyall · 14:16, 8 Feb 2026 · Updated 19:12, 25 Feb

A week in biotech: Four IPOs launch in a single week as Eli Lilly breaks the trillion-dollar barrier

Ian Lyall · 14:47, 8 Feb 2026 · Updated 19:12, 25 Feb

Nvidia hosts first AI Day in Brazil as country prepares $4bn push into artificial intelligence

TechDefused Newsroom · 17:26, 14 Feb 2026 · Updated 19:07, 25 Feb

NVIDIA survey finds healthcare AI moving from pilots to production with measurable returns

TechDefused Newsroom · 13:24, 25 Feb 2026

Gilead pays $7.8bn to take full control of a CAR T therapy that could win FDA approval by year-end

Ian Lyall · 20:50, 23 Feb 2026

Injecting mitochondria from the young into the old

Ian Lyall · 16:55, 21 Feb 2026