Scientists in Minnesota have built a cell from scratch. It can feed, grow, and divide, and it competes with its own offspring. Its makers do not claim it is alive. But the line between chemistry and biology just got a lot thinner. The team at the Unive…
Meta says it can turn brain activity into typed sentences without opening your skull. The leap is real. So is the catch: the system learns from typing, the one thing its intended users cannot do. On Monday, Meta unveiled the second version of Brain2Qwe…
A Silicon Valley startup says it has built a pharmacy with no pharmacist behind the counter. Sealed bottles go in, filled and checked prescriptions come out, in about a minute. The company, Queue, came out of stealth on Tuesday with a working machine a…
The US government has just handed scientists the largest map of human health ever assembled. It pairs more than half a million genomes with real medical records, and it arrives as the programme behind it faces deep budget cuts. The database comes from …
Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the lab. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Scienc…
A new institute at Penn’s Basser Center will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to intercept hereditary cancers at their earliest stages, before they become disease. The idea behind the gift is unusual enough to need its own word. Most cancer p…
Marc Andreessen has a bold new claim about your health. The billionaire investor says “Doctor ChatGPT” is already a better doctor than 99% of human ones. Doctors, and the peer-reviewed evidence, strongly disagree. Andreessen made the remark on Joe Roga…
Dina Gazzella is 85, and on her wrist is a small black band that looks like a watch and does rather more than tell the time. “If I feel unwell, this is a lifesaver,” she told Reuters. In a summer that has turned lethal across Europe, that is not a figu…
Mental health chatbots all share the same limitation: the user has to reach out first. That is not always easy when someone is stressed, anxious, or unable to articulate how they feel. Researchers at the University of Ottawa are building an AI assistan…
Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly visible part of healthcare. From administrative workflows and clinical decision support to remote monitoring and wellness technologies, organizations are exploring how AI can help process information …