Stockholm’s BioLamina secures €20M EIB loan to scale the protein matrices that make cell therapies possible
Stockholm’s BioLamina secures €20M EIB loan to scale the protein matrices that make cell therapies possible

The European Investment Bank is lending €20 million to BioLamina, the Swedish biotech that supplies the laminin-based cell culture matrices used by stem cell therapy developers worldwide. The funding will support expanded production of laminin technolo…

Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M
Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M

STC-15 is the world’s first RNA-modifying enzyme inhibitor to reach human trials. Phase 1 showed durable tumour regression across multiple sarcoma subtypes. The $56M Series C is backed entirely by existing investors including Pfizer Ventures and M Vent…

Amazon launches AI Bio platform to accelerate early-stage drug discovery
Amazon launches AI Bio platform to accelerate early-stage drug discovery

Amazon Web Services (AWS)  announced this Tuesday the launch of its AI bio tool, Amazon Bio Discovery, to accelerate the early-stage process of drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry. The application aims to help scientists design and test novel…

AliveCor brings its pocket-sized 12-lead ECG to Europe after detecting more than 4,000 heart attacks in the US
AliveCor brings its pocket-sized 12-lead ECG to Europe after detecting more than 4,000 heart attacks in the US

The Kardia 12L, which uses five electrodes and a single cable to replace bulky 10-lead ECG carts, has received CE Mark. It launches first in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, with its AI system detecting 35 cardiac conditions including acute m…

Science Corp is preparing to place its first brain sensor in a human, betting biology will beat electrodes
Science Corp is preparing to place its first brain sensor in a human, betting biology will beat electrodes

Science Corporation, the BCI company founded by ex-Neuralink president Max Hodak, is preparing to place a pea-sized, 520-electrode sensor on a human brain’s surface during already-scheduled surgery. Yale neurosurgery chair Murat Günel will lead the pro…

Helical closes $10M seed to turn bio foundation models into systems
Helical closes $10M seed to turn bio foundation models into systems

The Luxembourg-founded startup is already in production with multiple top-20 global pharma companies, including a public collaboration with Pfizer. Its $10M seed round is led by redalpine, with the CEOs of Cohere and HuggingFace among the angel investo…

AI can screen 15 million molecules in a day. It still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.
AI can screen 15 million molecules in a day. It still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.

The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly unsolved. At Novartis, sometime in late 2025, a team of researchers working on Huntington’s…

Utah let AI prescribe medicine
Utah let AI prescribe medicine

The case for AI prescription renewals is real. So is the case against trusting a state sandbox to catch the risks. In January, a security research firm called Mindgard sat down with a chatbot. The chatbot had been built by Doctronic, a health technolog…

HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy
HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy

The Berkeley biotech is backing a Nature-published approach that recreates the embryonic environment where blood stem cells first form, rather than reprogramming aged cells chemically or genetically. Its lead programme targets bone marrow transplant in…

neuroClues closes €10M Series A to bring its eye-tracking Parkinson’s diagnostic to European and US neurologists
neuroClues closes €10M Series A to bring its eye-tracking Parkinson’s diagnostic to European and US neurologists

The French-Belgian medtech uses a portable headset to capture up to 800 infrared images per eye per second, extracting oculomotor biomarkers that can indicate Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and multiple sclerosis years before clinical symptoms appear. It re…