Whoop Expands Beyond Its Wearable Membership With Blood Tests

Whoop is known for its wearable fitness tracker. Now it wants to become your source for lab testing.

Anthropic says Claude designed working protein binders, and beat human experts on some
Anthropic says Claude designed working protein binders, and beat human experts on some

Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in minutes. It published the two experiments on Tuesday. The company reported the results itself. It framed them as early evidence that Claude can speed u…

This Bengaluru startup is training dogs and AI to sniff out cancer early
This Bengaluru startup is training dogs and AI to sniff out cancer early

Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming idea aimed at a real problem, with equally real caveats: this is prescreening in trials, not a proven diagnostic. A dog’s nose has lo…

Pixel Watch 5 Will Call Emergency Services if It Detects a Breathing Emergency

The new feature will be available on the Pixel Watch 4 as well.

Bios Life leaves stealth with $25M and a Tempus alliance for cancer surveillance
Bios Life leaves stealth with $25M and a Tempus alliance for cancer surveillance

A team of BioNTech alumni thinks cancer screening has been stuck in the past, and it has raised $25M to do something about it. Bios Life has emerged from stealth with a plan to replace one-off screening with continuous, AI-driven surveillance, and a da…

Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.
Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.

Apple is in late-stage testing on three Apple Watch models for this autumn, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported: the Series 12 in Wi-Fi and cellular versions, plus the Ultra 4. He has not heard of a new Apple Watch SE planned for 2026. That absence is the…

Hers Adds an AI Tool to Help Women Navigate Weight Loss and GLP-1 Use

Hers is testing the new feature with weight loss patients on GLP-1 medications, but plans to expand the service.

$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom
$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom

The clearest sign of China’s drug-development surge is not a molecule but a monkey. The price of a research primate there has climbed toward 150,000 yuan, roughly $26,000, and it keeps rising. That is a steep jump in a short time. The figure is up from…

NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data
NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data

NHS England has admitted that a key data-protection document misstated who could see patients’ medical records. It did not disclose the whole arrangement. Staff at Palantir, the US data-analytics firm, can view identifiable patient data inside part of …

Everyone’s building a ‘GPT for cells.’ Relation’s bet is manufacturing the data to train it.
Everyone’s building a ‘GPT for cells.’ Relation’s bet is manufacturing the data to train it.

The race to build an AI “foundation model of the cell” has a fuel problem. The biological data needed to train one is scarce, messy and inconsistent. Relation Therapeutics thinks the answer is to manufacture that data itself, and GSK is paying up to $1…