Anthropic has quietly established a physical biology laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area to conduct wet lab experiments, pushing its artificial intelligence capabilities beyond computer evaluations, according to two people familiar with the matter. Inside Anthropic’s New Bay Area Wet Lab The artificial intelligence startup built the physical experimentation space as part of a … Read more
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has conditioned its request for emergency federal disease experts on the U.S. State health secretary Debra Bogen warned CDC director Erica Schwartz that Pennsylvania will rescind its request for an Epidemic Intelligence Service deployment if the federal agency excludes the fatalities from its national tally. The Dispute Over Measles Fatality … Read more
GE HealthCare Technologies is currently in talks over a potential $1 billion acquisition of radiopharmaceutical developer Sofie Biosciences, according to a report by the Financial Times citing sources familiar with the matter. If completed, the transaction would mark the second major acquisition for GE HealthCare since its spin-off from General Electric in 2024. Why Sofie … Read more
The White House announced on Thursday that it will send $500 refunds to nearly one million Americans enrolled in Obamacare health insurance plans across 30 states, citing “user fees” passed on to consumers in higher premiums that exceeded the amounts needed to run the Healthcare.gov federal exchange. Details of the Obamacare User Fee Refunds and … Read more
Novartis shares dropped 3.3% on Monday morning, according to Reuters reporting, after its cholesterol drug pelacarsen failed in a large, late-stage study by not reducing heart attack and stroke risk in patients with high Lp(a). The setback casts doubt on dedicated Lp(a)-lowering therapies and increases pressure on upcoming data for the Swiss drugmaker’s pipeline. Pelacarsen … Read more
China’s drug regulator has accepted Novo Nordisk’s application to sell an oral version of its Wegovy weight-loss drug, according to a Reuters report published on August 27. The regulatory filing in the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical market marks a step for the Danish drugmaker as it chases rival Eli Lilly in the burgeoning anti-obesity sector. Regulatory … Read more
Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over claims that the tech giant engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children. According to court filings, the seven-week trial in Oakland tests allegations from Colorado, Kentucky, California, and New Jersey that Meta designed … Read more