<p>The company said an &#8220;unauthorized third party&#8221; accessed Genea data, but won’t say if sensitive health information was stolen</p>

<p>Earlier this month, the Trump administration directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to impose limits on specific types of funding it provides to research institutions. Although a federal judge has temporarily blocked the policy change, government grants to early-stage biotech startups could still face delays or be eliminated entirely, said Chris Gibson, co-founder and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Level Zero Health, a female-founded medical device startup that&#8217;s aiming to break new ground by developing a device for continuous hormone monitoring, has closed an oversubscribed $6.9 million pre-seed funding round despite being only a little over a year old. The startup wants to do away with the need for invasive blood draws and support [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We all know headphones can be bad for your hearing if you listen to sounds too loudly in close proximity to your ears. But a BBC report suggests that a new health scare could be emerging around the noise-canceling feature that&#8217;s hugely popular in modern earphones. The article considers whether the technology could essentially be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Big Tech and pharmaceutical companies are accelerating the implementation of artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry. Just last month, AWS and General Catalyst announced their partnership to speed up the development and deployment of healthcare AI tools. GE HealthCare teamed up with AWS to build generative AI for medical use in 2024.   Now, Thailand-based [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new startup founded by a former Google DeepMind scientist is exiting stealth with $50 million in funding. Latent Labs is building AI foundation models to &#8220;make biology programmable,&#8221; and it plans to partner with biotech and pharmaceutical companies to generate and optimize proteins. It&#8217;s impossible to understand what DeepMind and its ilk are doing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>People magazine has landed the first interview with Elizabeth Holmes since she reported to prison in 2023, and the convicted Theranos founder says she is still working on &#8220;research and inventions&#8221; in the healthcare space. &#8220;I remain completely committed to my dream of making affordable healthcare solutions available to everyone,&#8221; she told the magazine. Holmes, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With over 1,000 insurance companies in the U.S., figuring out how to get paid by each company is a complex challenge for doctors and hospitals. Each insurance may require slightly different information on medical claims, even for the same procedure. Incorrectly filed claims can lead to denied coverage, requiring manual resubmission and delayed payments. According [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Quantum computing, long relegated to the realm of the theoretical, feels like it is back on the agenda as a potentially viable alternative to the expensive race for even more computing power.&nbsp; On the heels of some notable advancements in quantum chips and error correction (two key hurdles for quantum computing), a startup out of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Medical imaging is crucial for the timely identification of serious diseases like cancer. However, manual interpretation of scans is a time-intensive process. Healthcare professionals increasingly use AI-powered tools for diagnostic purposes, as such technologies can be very effective in detecting and categorizing diseases. A Sydney, Australia-headquartered startup, Harrison.ai, has built AI-enabled medical diagnostic software and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A report from The New York Times over the weekend highlights the small — but apparently growing — trend of users wearing their Apple Watches on their ankles. What&#8217;s becoming something of a viral sensation on social platforms like TikTok is the result of a pragmatic decision. Some Apple Watch owners’ wrists are simply too [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As cancer rates in the West, and globally, tack upwards due to lifestyle and environmental pollution, so does the need for the nuclear isotopes used in detecting those cancers in a medical setting. But with many reactors built in the 70s and 80s scheduled for shutdown, the materials used are becoming rarer and more expensive. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cultivated chicken doggie snacks have gone on sale at a U.K. pet food retailer, Pets at Home. The retailer also happens to be a major investor in Meatly, the startup producing the meat ingredient contained in dog food brand The Pack&#8217;s Chick Bites, as the slaughter-free, low-carbon treats are billed. (Other ingredients in the snacks [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The race is on to build a new generation of healthcare software to replace legacy hospital systems that in some cases may not have been updated in decades. A startup out of Munich, Germany, called Avelios has ambitions to build a new kind of end-to-end operating system, leaning into more modern tooling using AI and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For decades, the U.S. healthcare system has struggled to address the diet-related chronic illnesses affecting nearly half of all adults. That changed in recent years with the discovery of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that help people lose weight. While insurance covers these medications, doctors frequently require patients to see a nutritionist as part of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As a university student, Dalton Signor was troubled by how many people around him smoked or vaped, including his grandmother and 14-year-old sister. Signor (pictured center) felt that existing smoking-cessation medicines, whether patches, gums, or lozenges, are not very effective because they take too long to start working. &#8220;They take about 30 minutes to provide [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google’s X &#8220;moonshot factory&#8221; this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown.&nbsp; As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stress isn’t just bad for you — it’s also bad for your employer. Factoring in absenteeism, diminished productivity, turnover, medical costs, and accidents, the nonprofit American Institute of Stress estimates that workplace stress costs U.S. businesses over $300 billion annually. One way to measure stress is by monitoring cortisol levels. Even influencers know this, with [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>The company, founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, announced a $14 million Series A, bringing its total funding to about $32 million.</p>