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For millions of people, AI chatbots have become a new gateway to health information. More than 230 million people use ChatGPT to ask health questions every week. Healthcare is now OpenAI’s largest and fastest-growing use case, and the company has made significant inroads into the space, rolling out enterprise tools for hospitals and personal health assistants for consumers. OpenAI has set an audacious goal of “improving the health of all humanity” through AI, and Karan Singhal is leading the effort. Singhal, a leading artificial intelligence researcher who previously worked at Google, joined OpenAI two years ago as head of health…

AbbVie announced its largest acquisition in more than five years, agreeing to acquire Apogee Therapeutics for approximately $10.9 billion to further strengthen the company’s leadership in immunology and expand its pipeline of therapeutics for inflammatory diseases. The acquisition will give AbbVie access to Apogee’s lead candidate sumiloquivert (APG777), a late-stage monoclonal antibody in development for atopic dermatitis, asthma, and other inflammatory diseases. This therapy is of great interest in the industry as it potentially offers a more convenient dosing schedule compared to current standard treatments. The deal comes as pharmaceutical companies across the industry continue to invest heavily in innovative…

As artificial intelligence continues to transform capabilities across drug discovery, clinical development, manufacturing, commercial operations, and life sciences, senior HR and workforce transformation leaders are facing new strategic challenges on how to redesign jobs, skills, and operating models for an AI-enabled future. Generative AI is already reshaping the way life sciences organizations operate. McKinsey estimates that generative AI could create between $60 billion and $110 billion in annual economic value for the pharmaceutical and medical products industry, with impacts spanning research and early detection, clinical development, operations, commercial and medical affairs. Deloitte also highlighted that AI and GenAI are beginning…

As early access programs continue to expand across Europe, pharmaceutical and biotech teams are facing increased pressure to get investigational drugs to patients early while navigating fragmented national regulations, increasing expectations for real-world data, rare disease access challenges, and increasingly complex global program delivery. Early access programs, also known as expanded access, managed access, compassionate use, or prior authorization access programs, allow eligible patients with serious, life-threatening, or severely debilitating conditions to access investigational therapies outside of clinical trials when no satisfactory approved treatment options exist. Across Europe, these programs are becoming increasingly important within broader drug development and patient…

An online experiment found that when men feel jealous, they are more likely to support women’s honor codes. This was not the case for women. Additionally, individuals with more restricted mating orientations also showed greater support for female honor norms. The paper is cognition and emotion. Women’s honor codes are cultural expectations about how women should behave in order to be considered respectable and honorable. They typically require women to maintain a reputation for sexual purity through behaviors such as dressing modestly and maintaining virginity before marriage. Women’s behavior may be seen as reflecting not only themselves but also their…

Feline Health, a tech-enabled preventative health startup, has raised $700 million with backing from celebrities Claudia Schiffer, Maria Sharapova, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, among others, and has entered the U.S. market with plans to open a clinic in New York City later this year. The company, founded by Spotify founders and former CEOs Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilssonne, offers non-invasive, radiation-free diagnostic scans that can capture millions of health data points. Unlike competitors Prenuvo and Ezra, which are currently owned by Function Health, Neko Health does not use large medical imaging machines such as MRIs for its scans. Neo…

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces the Thermo Scientific™GENESYS™ G5 series of visible and UV-visible spectrophotometers. This series is designed to help your laboratory standardize workflows, simplify routine testing, and expand analytical capabilities as your requirements evolve. This system is ideal for academic and teaching laboratories, providing students with hands-on experience using industry-relevant UV-Vis equipment while maintaining the ease of use required in educational settings. As laboratories face increasing testing demands and limited resources, this platform enables multiple UV-Vis analyzes on a single system, helping streamline operations and improve consistency between methods. Image credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific At the heart of the…

For the first time, 41,506 blind and visually impaired children in the UK could benefit from a breakthrough that gives them access to block coding. Zach Herbert, a 14-year-old student at New Worcester College in Worcester; Image credit: Micro:bit Educational Foundation Today, Microsoft MakeCode launches new screen reader compatibility, removing a barrier that has long prevented many students who are blind or have low vision from participating in block-based coding with their classmates. Developed in partnership with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation and the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Blockly team, this new feature is supported by classroom resources to help teachers bring…

A blood test for the biomarker phosphorylated tau-217 (p-tau217) recently received federal approval, but questions have been raised about how accurately such a test can predict whether cognitively healthy people will develop cognitive impairment, a key symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. A new international study led by experts at the Massachusetts General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and involving researchers on three continents is shedding new light on the prognostic value of these tests. The study found that individuals without cognitive impairment with very high levels of the biomarker had a 38% absolute risk of developing cognitive impairment over the next five years,…

Humans have earned a reputation as “superpredators” because we hunt, trap, and fish on a scale unmatched by other predators. These activities can reshape animal behavior across landscapes. But a new study led by the Indian Institute of Science Center for Ecological Sciences (IISc) suggests that wild animals do not respond the same way to all types of human presence. Animals consistently show fear when humans pose a direct lethal threat, such as when hunting or fishing. However, their reactions to non-lethal human activity are much less predictable. How wild animals respond to human threats The meta-analysis, published in Ecology…