LumiThera’s key innovation is a device for use by ophthalmologists that improves vision and slows its loss, with a focus on patients with dry age-related macular degeneration. Read More
Once a scrappy startup lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is now a global leader in cancer research. As it turns 50, the Seattle institution faces federal funding cuts that could slow progress. Read More
AI will transform healthcare in the next 1-2 years by connecting directly to personal medical records to give patients new levels of health insights, current and former Microsoft execs predicted Tuesday. Read More
Lila Biologics hopes to hand off a candidate protein within three to six months so the pharmaceutical giant can take the drug through clinical trials. Read More
The wiggly targets known to scientists as “intrinsically disordered proteins” have for decades eluded capture by custom-made drugs and antibodies.… Read More
PATH’s ribbon-cutting ceremony this week should have been purely celebratory. Instead, the global health nonprofit’s move to airy new Seattle… Read More
Circulate Health, a Seattle healthy longevity startup, today announced $12 million in seed funding. The company is partnering with two-dozen… Read More
Microsoft today announced an artificial intelligence tool that outperformed a panel of medical doctors in diagnosing complicated cases. The Microsoft… Read More
Reperio Health, a Portland, Ore.-based startup providing in-home health screenings, raised $14 million in funding, Endpoints News reports. The new… Read More
Seattle-based Fred Hutch Cancer Center laid off employees this week, impacting the nonprofit’s HIV-related work and IT department. The center,… Read More
Gestalt Diagnotistics, a Spokane, Wash.-based healthcare startup, has raised $7.5 million to enhance its artificial intelligence tools for digital pathology… Read More
Days after the Department of Health and Human Services canceled contracts for an historic women-focused health initiative, the agency appears… Read More
Portland-based biotech company Araceli Biosciences raised $11.2 million in new funding to fuel the expansion of its high-content imaging technology… Read More
The Trump administration is taking steps to cancel an historic women-focused health initiative that includes multiple institutions and is overseen… Read More
Proprio, a Seattle startup using artificial intelligence for improved surgical precision, received its second major clearance from the U.S. Food… Read More
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