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7/11/2026
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Engineers develop AI tool to design peptides that turn signals on or off | MedicalXpress To develop new and better peptides, the short amino acid strings behind medicines like GLP-1 drugs, researchers have used AI to generate candidates and to predict their properties.
Medical Plastics Companies Embrace AI MDDI Artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare manufacturing through predictive maintenance, digital twins, and smarter molding technologies designed to improve efficiency and precision.
Advanced AI models strengthen proactive care | MobiHealthNews
OpenEvidence expands clinical AI tools across NYC medical centers | MobiHealthNews OpenEvidence will be available to clinical staff across NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia and Weill Cornell Medicine hospitals and care sites in New York City and Westchester.
ROI alone can't measure healthcare AI's value | MobiHealthNews
Webinars & Videos | Health Exec This webinar will outline how to improve patient care, lower costs and reduce IT complexity through a well-designed Enterprise Imaging strategy. Using real-world examples (customer stories): we will discuss how hospital systems, healthcare providers and CIOs are strategically implementing enterprise imaging solutions to address these challenges and more.
Lab-grown sperm: scientists inch closer to fertility breakthrough | Nature It sounds like science fiction: collecting a person’s blood cells, engineering them so they eventually transform into immature sperm, and then incubating them in a tiny pouch grown on a mouse’s kidney.
A vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision | ScienceDaily Instead of blue cone cells migrating away from the retina's center, the study found they transform into red and green cones under the influence of vitamin A-related signals and thyroid hormones.
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A robot that reads bacteria by touch, without staining or chemical labels | Phys.org A research team led by Prof. Zong-Hong Lin at National Taiwan University has developed a robotic sensing platform that identifies bacteria through touch.
Beckman Coulter’s Alzheimer’s blood test obtains CE mark - Medical Device Network | Medicaldevice-Network.com Beckman Coulter's assay measures phosphorylated pTau217 levels in blood. Beckman Coulter Diagnostics has secured a CE mark for a blood test to aid in the clinical evaluation of amyloid pathology under the European Union’s in vitro diagnostic regulation (EU IVDR).
How to avoid dementia — what the science really says | Nature Offshoots of the FINGER study in the Netherlands and in 12 Latin American countries, will announce their results this month, and the World Health Organization will release its new dementia risk-reduction guidelines on 16 July. Deciphering the most effective ways to cut risks is important for researchers, clinicians and the public alike — especially given that the number of people with dementia worldwide is expected to soar in decades to come.
