Roundtables: Longevity’s Next Frontier: “Reprogramming” Your Body

Listen to the session or watch below Billions of dollars are flooding into efforts to reverse aging as scientists explore ways to return cells to a younger state. But how far off are these experimental treatments? Will they really work? Watch a conversation exploring longevity’s new focus. Speakers: Mary Beth Griggs, science editor and Jessica…

Graph Therapeutics brings total funding to over $10M to advance precision immunology

Graph Therapeutics, a next-generation techbio company developing precision medicinesfor inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases, has secured a new $5 millioninvestment led by Daphni, the Paris-based…

Inside Interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Your brain lives in the dark space of your skull. Yet it knows when the wind lifts the hairs on your skin, when your heart is…

Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to build “Liquid State Intelligence” for molecular behaviour

Apoha, a deeptech company pioneering what it calls Liquid State Intelligence emerges from stealth today with $36 million in funding. The round is led by Singular, with participation from Tim Draper’s…

Deep Science Ventures and Medicines Discovery Catapult partner to tackle brain drug delivery

Deep Science Ventures (DSV), a UK-based deeptech venture creator, and Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), a life sciences service dedicated to turning drug discovery into commercial breakthroughs, tod…

hephaistos.bio secures €161K to advance sustainable chemical manufacturing

Swiss biotech startup hephaistos.bio hassecured €161,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to accelerate the developmentof custom enzyme solutions for pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing.Chemical …

What happens in Vega$: steroids, swimmers, and a billion-dollar hustle

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace.

iFAST Diagnostics bags £5M to speed up infection testing and tackle antimicrobial resistance

UK biotech iFAST Diagnostics has closed a £5 million funding round. iFAST is addressing the $4 billion (and growing) Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) market. It has developed a test deliveri…

Mykor lands £4M to scale waste-based construction materials

Mykor, a UK biotechnology companydeveloping low-carbon construction materials from industrial and agriculturalwaste, has secured £4 million in funding to accelerate the scale-up of itsindustrial biofa…

Pacifico Biolabs raises €7M to turn brewery infrastructure into protein production

PacificoBiolabs, a mycelium fermentation protein company, has raised €7 million in aSeries A funding round backed by Stray Dog Capital, TGFS, Sprout & AboutVentures, Simon Capital, FoodLabs, and a…