#Biotechnology

Chai Discovery: AI Designing Proteins Like Software

Chai Discovery's co-founders discuss how their AI platform is revolutionizing protein design and drug discovery, making biology feel more like software development.

Anthropic Tweaks Fable 5 Biology AI

Anthropic enhances Fable 5 AI's biology safeguards, reducing false positives by 85% to enable broader use while maintaining controls on dual-use risks.

Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR's Non-Permanent Gene Editing

Jennifer Doudna discusses Scribe Therapeutics' non-permanent gene editing tech, its potential for common diseases, and the role of AI in science.

Anthropic Launches Rare Disease AI Grants

Anthropic offers up to $50,000 in AI credits for researchers and biotechs to advance rare disease discovery and drug development.

AI in Biology: From Tokens to Cells at Altos Labs

Altos Labs' Akram Baharlouei discusses the engineering challenges of applying foundation models to single-cell biology, highlighting breakthroughs and future directions in cellular rejuvenation and drug discovery.

Joe Lonsdale: US Leads AI Race, But China Steals Tech

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale discusses the US lead in AI, China's IP theft, and the need for regulatory reform, particularly at the FDA.

OpenAI Boosts Bio Bounty Rewards

OpenAI has doubled rewards to $50,000 for its rebranded Bio Bounty Program, seeking universal jailbreaks against advanced AI models like GPT-5.6.

GPT-5 Pro Solves Immunological Puzzle

OpenAI's GPT-5 Pro helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a three-year-old mystery about T-cell specialization, showcasing AI's potential in scientific research.

OpenAI Unveils LifeSciBench

OpenAI's LifeSciBench is a new benchmark designed to test AI's real-world applicability in complex life science research, moving beyond basic question answering.

HealthFormer: A Generative Health World Model

HealthFormer, a novel transformer model, generatively models human health trajectories and enables in silico intervention simulations, advancing personalized medicine.

Biology's Multimodal AI Unifier

MIMIC foundation model unifies biological data modalities, enabling advanced prediction and constrained molecular design.

AI and Cancer: How Noetik.ai is Revolutionizing Drug Discovery

Ron Alfa of Noetik.ai discusses how AI is being used to understand patient biology and improve cancer drug discovery, moving beyond broad classifications to personalized treatments.

Helical AI Lab Secures $10M for Pharma Discovery

Helical raises $10M for its virtual AI lab, aiming to make in-silico drug discovery reproducible and scalable for pharmaceutical giants.

Stipple Bio Secures New Funding

a16z is investing further in Stipple Bio, a biotech startup developing novel epitope-targeted cancer therapies to overcome current drug limitations.

Tevogen Bio's AI Slashes Drug Discovery Time

Tevogen Bio drastically cut drug discovery timelines from months to 24 hours using AI and a Databricks Lakehouse platform, aiming for more affordable therapies.

OpenAI Foundation Charts Its Course

OpenAI's Foundation outlines its multi-billion dollar mission to harness AI for humanity's benefit, focusing on health, economy, and safety.

Solugen: From Startup to Billion-Dollar Chemical Giant

Solugen's Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt are revolutionizing chemical manufacturing with their 'chemoenzymatic processing,' blending biology and chemistry to build cleaner, smaller plants.

TetraScience Unlocks Biopharma AI

TetraScience partners with Databricks to transform biopharma R&D by making lab data AI-ready, slashing development times and accelerating drug discovery.

AI Designs Dog's Cancer Vaccine

An AI expert engineered a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dying dog, Rosie, using advanced AI tools, resulting in significant tumor reduction.

Moderna Stock Drops Amidst Legal Settlement and Guidance Cuts

Moderna's stock fell 10% following a $955 million legal settlement and a revised, lower sales forecast, while Bristol Myers Squibb saw gains.

GPT-5 Slashes Protein Synthesis Costs

GPT-5 and Ginkgo Bioworks' automated lab cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40%, showcasing AI's power in physical science.

AlphaFold Powers Engineering of Resilient Crops

Valthos AI Biodefense Secures $30M to Combat Programmable Biology

InnerPlant\'s Breakthrough of Real-Time Fungal Detection in Soybeans

InnerPlant, a seed technology innovator, has achieved a significant milestone: the world\'s first real-time detection of early fungal infection in soybeans.

RisingFoodStars Reveals AgriFoodTech Scaleups to Confront EU’s RisingFood Prices and Climate Crisis

The selected scaleups are developing innovative solutions in sustainable agriculture, alternative proteins, and eco-friendly packaging to tackle food inflation and climate threats in the EU. They've raised +€870M in total.

32 Biosciences Secures $6 Million in Funding

Neuralink Secures Massive $650M Series E Funding

Vivodyne Secures $40 Million to Revolutionize Drug Discovery

NoMy Secures €1.25 Million to Scale Sustainable Mycoprotein Production

Oslo-based NoMy (Norwegian Mycelium AS) has announced a successful €1.25 million funding round to expand its sustainable mycoprotein production.

NoMy Secures €1.25 Million to Scale Sustainable Mycoprotein Production

Oslo-based NoMy (Norwegian Mycelium AS) has announced a successful €1.25 million funding round to expand its sustainable mycoprotein production.

Belgian Green Energy Startup Tree Energy Solutions Secures €140 Million in Funding

Tree Energy Solutions (TES), a Belgian green energy company, has raised €140 million in funding to advance its ambitious goals.

Veltist Secures €160,000 in Funding for Innovative Surgical Patch

Veltist, a medtech startup spun out of ETH Zurich and Empa, has successfully raised €160,000 (CHF 150,000) in seed funding from Venture Kick.

Veltist Secures €160,000 in Funding for Innovative Surgical Patch

Veltist, a medtech startup spun out of ETH Zurich and Empa, has successfully raised €160,000 (CHF 150,000) in seed funding from Venture Kick.

Belgian Green Energy Startup Tree Energy Solutions Secures €140 Million in Funding

Tree Energy Solutions (TES), a Belgian green energy company, has raised €140 million in funding to advance its ambitious goals.

Evaxion doses first patient in extension of phase 2 trial exploring the full potential of AI-designed personalized cancer vaccine EVX-01

Startup Funding Rounds of November 28, 2024

<p>Roon has raised $15M to replace 'Dr. Google' with real doctors sharing videos about illness treatments, aiming to enhance healthcare accessibility and information quality.</p>