Asia Pacific
TandemAI has secured US$22m in a Series A extension to advance its drug discovery platform. The round, from new and existing investors, takes total funding past US$80m since October 2021. The platform combines artificial intelligence with physics-based computation and wet-lab work to find potential drug candidates. The platform has produced more than ten [...]
Inviga Healthcare Fund (IHF) has acquired a 21 per cent stake in Indian ophthalmic diagnostics specialist Forus Health, backing the scale-up of its AI-integrated eye screening platforms in India and global markets. The deal marks Inviga’s second major transaction, following its 2024 investment in vaccine start-up Mynvax, and underlines the fund’s focus on Indian-built health [...]
Google plans to put AI datacentres in space, with its first prototype satellites set to launch in early 2027 to meet rising demand for artificial intelligence. The US technology company’s engineers believe around 80 solar-powered satellites could orbit about 400 miles above Earth, equipped with processors to handle AI workloads. Research released on Tuesday suggests [...]
Health Tech World explores the latest business developments in the world of health technology. AI to be trialled at across NHS screening Pioneering AI tools are to be tested in NHS screening services in order to enable quicker diagnoses and treatment for patients using a groundbreaking new cloud system. A new AI research screening platform [...]
From AI to inclusion, HETT 2025 brought together innovators, NHS leaders, and industry partners to explore how technology and people are shaping the future of healthcare. This year’s HETT returned to ExCeL London with renewed purpose. Coming a few weeks after the release of the NHS 10-Year Plan, the event focused on turning ambition into [...]
Samsung Electronics has completed the acquisition of Xealth, the US-based digital health platform that connects clinicians, patients and digital tools, in a move aimed at accelerating its vision for AI- and data-powered connected care. The deal, originally announced in July, brings together Samsung’s global device ecosystem – including wearables and smartphones – with Xealth’s platform, [...]
A potential new treatment target for Alzheimer's disease has been identified after a novel technique improved cognitive function in mice with the condition. Alzheimer's disease is thought to result from the abnormal build-up of proteins in and around brain cells. One of these proteins, amyloid, forms plaque around the cells. In an early study, researchers [...]
Ellipses Pharma has announced that its partner, Kelun Biotech, has had its new drug application (NDA) for the next-generation selective RET inhibitor EP0031/A400 accepted for review by China’s CDE under the NMPA. This acceptance for review, a key step in the regulatory approval process, is based on the positive results from the two pivotal Phase [...]
Air pollution is affecting how well people sleep, according to a global review of 1.2 million people across six countries. The metastudy analysed 25 high-quality studies since 2015, covering people over 45 years old in China, India, the US, Germany and other nations. Particle pollution, nitrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide were all linked to shorter [...]
Biostate AI, a company accelerating biological research through AI models, today announced the launch of K-Dense Beta, a comprehensive multi-agent AI research system that can compress research cycles from years to days, while eliminating hallucinations that plague generative AI models. In testing, K-Dense made a scientific breakthrough in longevity research, which will be published in [...]
