What You Should Know:
- LabConnect, a global provider of central laboratory services, has announced a strategic collaboration with OmniScience, the AI company behind the Vivo platform.
- Together, the companies will deliver an AI Agentic solution to give sponsors intelligent, real-time insights from clinical trial lab data.
Transforming Lab Data into Real-Time Action
Clinical trial lab data is often complex, siloed, and delayed, which can lead to slow decision-making
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Verily Sued by Former Executive Over Alleged HIPAA Breaches
What You Should Know:
- Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is facing a lawsuit from a former executive who alleges the company repeatedly covered up HIPAA breaches that affected more than 25,000 patients, CNBC first reports.
- Ryan Sloan, who served as chief commercial officer for Verily's diabetes and hypertension business, claims he was wrongfully fired after reporting his concerns to senior management. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, has not been
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Proscia Launches AI Solution to Advance Precision Medicine
What You Should Know:
- Proscia®, a pathology AI company, has announced the launch of Proscia Aperture™, a new precision medicine solution designed to automatically identify eligible patients for clinical trials at the moment of diagnosis.
- The AI-powered tool aims to tackle one of healthcare’s most significant challenges: connecting patients with life-saving therapies and accelerating the development of new treatments.
Transforming Pathology Data Into Real-Time
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Evolv Launches GLP-1 Supplement, a Natural Alternative to Weight-Loss Drugs
What You Should Know:
- Pioneering biomimetics company Evolv introduces its first product Evolv GLP-1: the first ingestible, natural GLP-1 peptide designed for effective and accessible weight management
- The oral GLP-1 supplement was created using a proprietary yeast strain engineered to produce a new molecule that delivers the full power of GLP-1 naturally. Unlike synthetic drugs, this non-habituating supplement is designed to help individuals manage appetite and metabolism without
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Living Optics and NVIDIA Jetson Showcase Real-Time Hyperspectral Imaging
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- Living Optics, a leader in hyperspectral imaging (HSI), has announced its latest real-time blood perfusion demonstration, which was built on the NVIDIA Jetson platform. The demonstration offers a glimpse into the future of edge AI for healthcare, life sciences, and precision imaging.
- The live demo showcases how the company’s spectral vision technology can distinguish between oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in real-time. This capability provides critical
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Revalia Bio Launches ‘Human Data Trials’ with $14.5M to Transform Drug Development
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- Revalia Bio Inc., a new pre-clinical research company secures $14.5M in seed funding round to support the launch of its "Human Data Trials".
- The funding was co-led by America's Frontier Fund and Sierra Ventures, with participation from Roger Ferguson, former Vice Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, and other existing investors. This brings Revalia's total funding to $19.5M.
A New Paradigm for Pre-Clinical Research
The investment comes at a crucial time
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Ketryx Raises $39M to Accelerate AI-Powered Compliance in Life Sciences
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- Ketryx, the AI-powered compliance platform helping life sciences companies ship safer products faster, today announced a $39 million Series B led by Transformation Capital, with participation from existing investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, MIT’s E14 Fund, Ubiquity Ventures, and 53 Stations.
- This latest round brings the company’s total funding to over $55 million, and Vinay Shah, Partner and Founding Team Member at Transformation
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ArcaScience Raises $7M to Advance AI-Powered Drug Benefit-Risk Evaluation
What You Should Know:
- ArcaScience, a Paris, France-based AI Healthtech startup, has announced a $7M seed funding round led by The Moon Venture, with participation from Pléiade Venture, Plug&Play Ventures, Bpifrance, and AKKA Technologies. This marks the company's first institutional funding round, following a €1.3 million pre-seed raise.
- The new funds will be used to expand operations in the U.S. and U.K., launch the company’s first patient-facing solution, and strategically
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Medable Launches Agent Studio, the First Agentic AI Platform for Life Sciences
What You Should Know:
- Medable, a technology provider for clinical development, has launched Agent Studio, which it calls the industry's first agentic AI platform purpose-built for life sciences.
- Agent Studio is a no-code agent-builder that allows clinical teams to quickly custom-configure AI agents. Medable also introduced CRA Agent, a pre-built agent designed for clinical trial monitoring that runs on the Agent Studio platform. Both Agent Studio and CRA Agent are intended
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Alphabet’s Verily Shuts Down Medical Device Division, Shifts Focus to AI
What You Should Know:
- Alphabet's Verily announced in an internal memo that is has closed its medical device division and laid off staff. The exact number of employees affected was not revealed.
- According to a spokesperson, the company has made the "difficult decision to discontinue manufacturing medical devices" and will no longer support them moving forward. This move is a continuation of a broader strategic shift from Alphabet in 2023, which saw the company cut 12,000 positions
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