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Health/Life Sciences

Dec 11, 2025, 10:25 AM

Joon Care, a Seattle-based mental health startup serving youth, acquired by Handspring Health

Seattle-based mental health startup Joon Care was acquired by Handspring Health. The companies both launched to provide online care for youth and young adults. Read More

Dec 9, 2025, 8:00 AM

Microsoft, Providence and UW create AI that unlocks tumor insights at a scale previously out of reach

Tech and cancer researchers are publicly releasing an AI tool that can perform sophisticated tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods. Read More

Dec 9, 2025, 8:00 AM

Seattle startup Casera emerges from PSL to help hospital managers clear bottlenecks with help from AI

Casera, a new healthcare technology startup in Seattle, is spinning out of Pioneer Square Labs with a unique approach to… Read More

Dec 3, 2025, 9:01 PM

Global health backslide: Gates Foundation report links funding cuts to rising child deaths

Bill Gates and his foundation are raising the alarm over the impacts of international funding cuts for global health, including an increase in children’s deaths. Read More

Dec 3, 2025, 8:19 AM

UW Nobel winner’s lab releases most powerful protein design tool yet

David Baker’s lab at the University of Washington is announcing two major leaps in the field of AI-powered protein design. Read More

Dec 2, 2025, 8:54 AM

Seattle biotech startup Curi Bio lands $10M to expand its R&D support for drug discovery

Seattle biotech startup Curi Bio today announced $10 million in new funding. The company enables the screening of new drugs using 3D tissue models. Read More

Dec 1, 2025, 2:14 PM

Anonymous donor gifts $50M to help University of Washington train ‘unsung heroes’ of healthcare

When medical laboratory science students learned the news at an event Monday at the UW’s Seattle campus, many began to cry. Read More

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Nov 17, 2025, 11:11 AM

Scientists create a supercomputer simulation that can reveal how the brain works, neuron by neuron

A computer model developed by researchers from Japan and Seattle’s Allen Institute could lead to new methods for studying brain diseases Read More

Nov 13, 2025, 5:00 AM

Allen Institute taps AWS, Google to spur ‘aha moments’ in neuroscience with new brain research platform

Seattle’s Allen Institute has released the Brain Knowledge Platform, a research aid described as the most comprehensive AI tool available for neuroscience. Read More

Nov 6, 2025, 2:25 PM

Uncommon Thinkers: A scientist’s journey from rural India to turning ‘science fiction’ into drug candidates

Before he launched a venture-backed biotech startup, prior even to landing a research role in one of the world’s premier academic labs, Anindya Roy arrived in the U.S. with two suitcases and $2,000 in the bank. Read More

Nov 6, 2025, 10:49 AM

Seattle’s Parse Biosciences to be acquired by Qiagen for $225M

Seattle’s Parse Biosciences is teed up for an acquisition by Qiagen, a Netherlands-based holding company, in a $225 million cash… Read More

Nov 6, 2025, 4:00 AM

Seattle startup Accipiter Bio emerges with $12.7M and big pharma deals for AI-designed proteins

A Seattle biotech startup born from a Nobel laureate’s lab has landed $12.7 million and partnerships with pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Kite Pharma by using AI to design proteins that mount a multi-pronged attack on diseases. Read More

Nov 5, 2025, 8:00 AM

Nobel winner’s lab notches another breakthrough: AI-designed antibodies that hit their targets

Researchers from Nobel Laureate David Baker’s lab at the University of Washington have successfully used AI to design antibodies from scratch. Read More

Nov 4, 2025, 8:47 AM

Philips lays off 33 employees at Seattle-area healthcare device manufacturing facility

Philips Ultrasound is laying off 33 employees from its Bothell, Wash., facility, which serves as a hub for the manufacturing of ultrasound and other healthcare devices. Read More

Nov 1, 2025, 7:48 AM

Filing: Seattle-area vaccine company Inventprise laying off 76 employees

Inventprise, a Redmond, Wash.–based biotechnology company developing vaccines for infectious diseases, is laying off 76 workers, according to a new… Read More

Oct 18, 2025, 8:33 AM

‘Doctor in your pocket’: Xealth CEO Mike McSherry on selling to Samsung and the future of digital healthcare

When Mike McSherry set out to build a digital health startup, the veteran entrepreneur wanted to create a company that… Read More

Oct 16, 2025, 8:04 AM

Seattle startup Brook.ai raises $28M to expand remote care platform

Brook.ai, a Seattle-based health technology startup that uses AI to help clinical teams to deliver remote care, announced a $28 million Series B round led by UMass Memorial Health and Morningside. Read More

Oct 10, 2025, 12:38 PM

Between hype and hope: Seattle biotech leaders size up AI’s real impact on drug development

Seattle biotech companies are using AI to design new medical treatments, but scientists caution the tech holds enormous promise, but needs to stay grounded in reality. Read More

Oct 9, 2025, 11:30 AM

Seattle startup’s FDA-approved, virus-neutralizing mask lands on Amazon

The virus-fighting startup Singletto has U.S. Department of Defense support, closed a $10 million round, and is selling its pathogen-killing face masks on Amazon. Read More

Oct 8, 2025, 7:41 AM

Fresh off $30M round, Seattle startup Lumen Bioscience adds Microsoft vet Jeff Raikes to board

Seattle-based biotech startup Lumen Bioscience raised a $30 million Series C extension and announced several leadership updates. WestRiver Group led… Read More

Oct 7, 2025, 2:27 PM

How a scrappy biotech startup backed by Microsoft’s co-founders set the stage for two Nobel winners

The groundbreaking immunology research behind two Nobel Prizes awarded this week traces back to a largely forgotten biotech startup backed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Read More

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Oct 7, 2025, 2:00 AM

Scientists enlist AI to map regions of the brain in unprecedented detail — and that’s just the start

An artificial intelligence program identifies previously uncharted subregions of the mouse brain. Read More

Oct 6, 2025, 2:54 PM

‘Seattle biotech is on fire’: Industry produces three Nobel Prize winners in two years

Mary Brunkow of the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology, Fred Ramsdell of Sonoma Biotherapeutics, and David Baker of the UW’s Institute for Protein Design were honored for their research. Read More

Oct 6, 2025, 9:08 AM

Seattle scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell win Nobel Prize for immunology research

Seattle scientist Mary Brunkow of the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) won a Nobel Prize for research on the immune cells that prevent our body from attacking itself. Read More

Oct 2, 2025, 7:26 AM

Seattle startup introduces ‘Juno,’ a digital assistant to handle admin tasks for mental health clinicians

Alpyne Labs created its AI-powered tool to take care of benefits checks, billing, scheduling, notes organization and more to free up therapists to concentrate on patient care. Read More

Oct 1, 2025, 7:00 AM

Cancer AI Alliance says new tech platform will speed breakthroughs with novel privacy approach

A consortium of top U.S. cancer centers has developed an AI platform that trains models on clinical data from multiple institutions while protecting patient privacy, with the goal of cutting the timeline for new discoveries in cancer research from years to months. Read More

Sep 24, 2025, 8:00 AM

UW institute led by Nobel Laureate uses AI to develop ‘off switch’ for cancer drugs and other applications

The drug interleukin-2 does a great job of goosing a patient’s immune response to certain kidney and melanoma cancers. In… Read More

Sep 17, 2025, 4:24 PM

Seattle’s new frontier: Biotech, AI and the race to revolutionize medicine

As new startups and initiatives continue to bolster its standing, Seattle is being called “the best place in the world to build an AI life sciences company.” Read More

Sep 17, 2025, 7:40 AM

‘Virtual medicine cabinet’ from Seattle startups will put health tech apps in one place

A “virtual medicine cabinet” to provide families with digital tools to manage some aspects of healthcare from home is up… Read More

Sep 16, 2025, 2:04 PM

Fred Hutch leaders raise $10M for new AI startup aiming to expedite drug discovery

The Seattle-based biotech company aims to make new drug discovery faster and cheaper by using AI to simulate the results from hypothetical lab tests. Read More

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