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Beyond Animal Models: iPSC Assays Unlock the Human Brain

Beyond Animal Models: iPSC Assays Unlock the Human Brain

For decades, neurodegenerative research has relied heavily on animal models. While transgenic mice and rats have yielded fundamental insights into the architecture of the central nervous system, they consistently hit a translational roadblock when applied to human...

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AI Transparency Gap in SaMD Regulation

AI Transparency Gap in SaMD Regulation

Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon of medical device regulation — it’s already on regulators’ desks. The FDA’s iterative guidance on AI/ML-based Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), the EU AI Act’s risk classification scheme, and Health Canada’s...

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Merck’s $6.7bn Terns Deal: A New Oral CML Treatment

Merck’s $6.7bn Terns Deal: A New Oral CML Treatment

Merck has completed its $6.7 billion acquisition of Terns Pharmaceuticals, gaining control of TERN-701, an investigational oral CML treatment that the pharmaceutical giant hopes will become a cornerstone of its expanding cancer portfolio. The deal, which closed on 5...

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Five Ways AI Will Reshape Life Sciences in 2026

Five Ways AI Will Reshape Life Sciences in 2026

Why People, Process, and Purpose Matter Most Following a period of experimentation, life sciences is entering a pivotal new phase in AI adoption. The industry is shifting away from hype-driven pilots and toward proven, value-led applications that improve how therapies...

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Why Hormone Tracking will be a Key Health Trend for 2026

Why Hormone Tracking will be a Key Health Trend for 2026

Hormone health expert and bestselling author Dr Louise Newson explains why we'll all be tracking our hormones in 2026. The use of period tracking apps and menopause symptom tracker apps are at an all-time high. And it’s no wonder. These apps can be incredibly useful...

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OpenAI Accelerates Healthcare Strategy With ChatGPT Health

OpenAI Accelerates Healthcare Strategy With ChatGPT Health

OpenAI is making its most coordinated move into healthcare to date, positioning ChatGPT Health as a central interface for clinical, research, and operational use across the medical ecosystem. Rather than launching a single consumer-facing medical product, the company...

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The Lost World of Autism

The Lost World of Autism

Dhruv Shenai explores how females have been left behind in conversations on autism by discussing the history and lack of female representation within the field. Neuroscientist Gina Rippon has spent years challenging the male-centred bias in autism research. Her new...

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Why Life Sciences Can no Longer Rely on Traditional Media

Why Life Sciences Can no Longer Rely on Traditional Media

The life sciences industry is advancing at a speed that would have felt unimaginable just a few years ago. Artificial intelligence is shortening drug discovery timelines. Digital therapeutics are reshaping care delivery. Precision medicine is moving healthcare from...

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Five Ways AI Will Reshape Life Sciences in 2026

Five Ways AI Will Reshape Life Sciences in 2026

Why People, Process, and Purpose Matter Most Following a period of experimentation, life sciences is entering a pivotal new phase in AI adoption. The industry is shifting away from hype-driven pilots and toward proven, value-led applications that improve how therapies...

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Why Hormone Tracking will be a Key Health Trend for 2026

Why Hormone Tracking will be a Key Health Trend for 2026

Hormone health expert and bestselling author Dr Louise Newson explains why we'll all be tracking our hormones in 2026. The use of period tracking apps and menopause symptom tracker apps are at an all-time high. And it’s no wonder. These apps can be incredibly useful...

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OpenAI Accelerates Healthcare Strategy With ChatGPT Health

OpenAI Accelerates Healthcare Strategy With ChatGPT Health

OpenAI is making its most coordinated move into healthcare to date, positioning ChatGPT Health as a central interface for clinical, research, and operational use across the medical ecosystem. Rather than launching a single consumer-facing medical product, the company...

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The Lost World of Autism

The Lost World of Autism

Dhruv Shenai explores how females have been left behind in conversations on autism by discussing the history and lack of female representation within the field. Neuroscientist Gina Rippon has spent years challenging the male-centred bias in autism research. Her new...

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Why Life Sciences Can no Longer Rely on Traditional Media

Why Life Sciences Can no Longer Rely on Traditional Media

The life sciences industry is advancing at a speed that would have felt unimaginable just a few years ago. Artificial intelligence is shortening drug discovery timelines. Digital therapeutics are reshaping care delivery. Precision medicine is moving healthcare from...

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FDA Drug Approval Decisions

Last updated 31 July 2026. Covering target action dates from August to December 2026. The closing stretch of the third quarter has become the busiest regulatory window of 2026. Between early August and the end of September, the US Food and Drug Administration faces...
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Life Science Daily News: Eight Months of Growth and a Global Community Taking Shape

Life Science Daily News launched in November 2025 with a simple premise: that researchers, biotech founders, healthcare professionals, communications specialists and industry professionals should be able to publish their own work directly to a specialist audience,...
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CRISPR Gene Editing 2026: Rare Diseases, Cancer and Autoimmune

CRISPR gene editing in 2026 is no longer a technology to watch. It is a technology delivering results. Across three distinct disease areas, rare inherited conditions, haematologic and solid cancers, and autoimmune disease, clinical programmes are accumulating...
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The GLP-1 Drug Pipeline: Every Candidate to Watch in 2026

The GLP-1 drug pipeline has become one of the most consequential and closely watched in modern pharmaceutical history. In 2026, the class of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists is no longer defined solely by Ozempic and Wegovy. A new generation of oral tablets,...
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Anti-Ro52 vs Anti-Ro60: Advancing Sjögren’s Disease Diagnosis

Autoantibody testing is a central part of autoimmune disease diagnosis, including Sjögren’s disease (SjD). The American College of Rheumatology and European Alliance of Associations of Rheumatology (ACR/EULAR) classification criteria for SjD incorporate ocular and...

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Prostate Cancer Screening: What You Need to Know

Prostate Cancer Screening: What You Need to Know

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting men worldwide. Across the UK, Europe and the United States, it remains a leading cause of cancer diagnosis in men and a significant contributor to cancer related mortality. Despite its prevalence, prostate...

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Lego for Biotech Labs

Lego for Biotech Labs

How Modular Hardware Is Breaking Decades of Vendor Lock-In There’s a running joke among biotech lab managers that goes something like this: You don’t buy a bioreactor. You buy a relationship. A very expensive, very locked-in relationship. It’s funny because it’s...

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J&J Axes Eczema Drug From $1.25B Acquisition

J&J Axes Eczema Drug From $1.25B Acquisition

Johnson & Johnson has discontinued development of an eczema treatment that was a central asset in a biotechnology acquisition valued at up to 1.25 billion US dollars, following a recent internal portfolio review. The decision highlights the ongoing scientific and...

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7,000 Steps a Day May Improve Brain and Reduce Disease Risk

7,000 Steps a Day May Improve Brain and Reduce Disease Risk

Walking around 7,000 steps each day could help sharpen cognition and shield against a variety of chronic illnesses, according to a major new analysis. This target may be more attainable, yet still effective, than the widely publicised 10,000 step goal. Published in...

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The Boom in Life Sciences in India

The Boom in Life Sciences in India

India is emerging as one of the most dynamic life sciences markets in the world. Long recognised for its strength in pharmaceuticals and generics, the country is now experiencing a broader life sciences boom that spans biotechnology, vaccines, medical devices,...

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Mapping a Single Neuron

Mapping a Single Neuron

This visualization from the Lichtman Lab and Google Connectomics captures one of the most detailed looks we’ve ever had at a single cortical neuron. What you’re seeing isn’t an artist’s rendering — it’s a true 3D reconstruction built from electron microscopy, stitched...

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Why Neurology Clinical Trials Need Purpose-Built AI

Each year on May 20, International Clinical Trials Day recognizes James Lind’s 1747 scurvy trial and the patients, clinicians, coordinators, sponsors and researchers who make clinical progress possible. It is also a moment to look honestly at where clinical research...

What the Veppanu Approval Means for ESR1 Breast Cancer

The FDA's approval of Veppanu (vepdegestrant) marks the first regulatory clearance for a PROTAC in any disease area, and opens a new chapter in the treatment of ESR1-mutated advanced breast cancer. On 1 May 2026, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved...

Burnout in the Helping Profession: Why Healthcare Keeps Getting it Wrong

Across the life sciences sector, a quiet crisis is unfolding. Researchers, clinicians, nurses, and social workers describe feeling trapped in a cycle with no exit: outwardly productive, inwardly depleted. Burnout is not a new phenomenon, but the life sciences...

Agentic AI in Drug Discovery: Why Big Pharma is All in

When Eli Lilly signed a deal worth up to $2.75 billion with AI drug developer Insilico Medicine in March 2026, it was the latest in a cascade of nine-figure and ten-figure commitments from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to a single emerging technology....

Anti-Ro52 vs Anti-Ro60: Advancing Sjögren’s Disease Diagnosis

Autoantibody testing is a central part of autoimmune disease diagnosis, including Sjögren’s disease (SjD). The American College of Rheumatology and European Alliance of Associations of Rheumatology (ACR/EULAR) classification criteria for SjD incorporate ocular and...

China Drug Trials Now Outpace the US. Here is What That Means

China has overtaken the United States in the annual number of drug clinical trials. It is a sentence that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. Today, it is simply fact, and the implications for drug development, global pharma strategy, and geopolitical...

Why Biopharma Must Invest in Novel Targets

Drug development continues to concentrate on a small set of well-known targets, creating a crowded landscape where many companies pursue similar pathways. While research into novel mechanisms continues, familiar targets often take priority, reflecting a cautious...

Weekly News Roundup | 18 May 2026

Life science news 18 May 2026: FDA leadership turmoil, a landmark Alzheimer's breakthrough and a $15 billion China licensing deal define a historic week for the global industry. The week of 10 to 17 May 2026 delivered a concentration of high-impact events across...

Biologics on the Brink: The Patent Cliff Facing Big Pharma

The global pharmaceutical industry is approaching what many analysts are calling the largest patent cliff biologics in its history. This pharma patent cliff biologics analysts have long anticipated is now arriving in force. Between 2025 and 2030, drugs collectively...

Clinical Trials Roundup | 15 May 2026

AstraZeneca's eneboparatide meets the Phase 3 CALYPSO primary endpoint in chronic hypoparathyroidism with full data presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology, Alkermes' LUMRYZ meets its primary endpoint in the Phase 3 REVITALYZ trial for idiopathic...

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Explained: How They Work and Who They’re For

Originally published 15 May 2026. Updated 28 June 2026 to reflect the latest approved indications, pipeline data, and access developments. GLP-1 receptor agonists have moved from specialist diabetes clinics to mainstream medicine with remarkable speed. Once known...

Hallmarks of Ageing as a Framework: How the Research Field is Evolving

When López-Otín and colleagues published “The Hallmarks of Aging” in Cell in 2013, they did something the field of biogerontology had quietly needed for decades: they created a framework. Nine interconnected processes, from genomic instability and telomere attrition...

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