Boston University’s Antibody-Focused AI Skips the Warehouse, Goes Straight for the Key
Finding a therapeutic antibody that binds tightly to a specific disease target has traditionally meant screening millions, sometimes billions, of...
Month: August 2026
Novo Nordisk Hands AWS the Keys to Its Drug Pipeline in Sweeping Agentic AI Partnership
Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical giant behind Ozempic and Wegovy, announced on August 10, 2026, a sweeping strategic partnership with...
First AI-Designed Drug to Reach Phase III Just Won FDA Fast Track Status for a Disease With No Cure
Rentosertib, a lung-disease drug whose molecular target was identified and whose structure was designed by generative AI, has been granted...
One AI Model, 32 Cancers: New Algorithm Reads Genetic Mutations Straight Off a Routine Biopsy Slide
A single stained tissue slide, the kind pathologists have examined under microscopes for more than a century, can now be...
AlphaFold Missed It: Mount Sinai Team Finds Hidden Cancer-Drug Pocket That Every AI Model Overlooked
For three years, every major AI structure-prediction tool available to drug hunters has been trained to see something that, it...
An AI Chatbot Now Adjusts Insulin Doses for Diabetes Patients. The FDA Cleared It Anyway.
A software company called UpDoc has begun rolling out what it describes as the first FDA-cleared clinical AI platform built...
An AI Voice Now Calls Seniors Every Day to Ask How They’re Doing. Atlanta Startup Bets Families Will Trust It.
An Atlanta-based health technology company called CheckWellCall has begun the commercial soft launch of an AI-powered daily wellness check-in platform...
States Race Ahead of Federal Regulators to Rein In AI Therapy Chatbots
With no federal framework yet governing AI chatbots that people turn to for mental health support, a growing patchwork of...
HCA Healthcare Bets on AI for a Task Its Nurses Repeat 60,000 Times a Day: The Shift-Change Handoff
Every day across HCA Healthcare's 190 hospitals and roughly 2,400 ambulatory sites of care, nurses perform the same routine roughly...
Temple University Hospital’s AI Insulin Tool Cuts Dangerous Blood Sugar Crashes in Half
At Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia, an artificial intelligence program called EndoTool is now fully embedded in how nurses...
