PRIMA Eye Implant Wins CE Mark—Blind Patients Read Again Across 30 Countries
Science Corp's PRIMA retinal implant won a CE mark covering 30 European countries after trial patients blinded by macular degeneration could read again.
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Category: Biotech & Life Sciences
AI in healthcare, biotechnology, genetic engineering, and medical research
OpenAI rolls out Health in ChatGPT—connecting medical records to the chatbot
US users can now link Apple Health and supported providers to get personalized health context, though OpenAI is explicit it is not a diagnostic tool.
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users as weekly health queries hit 300 million
OpenAI opens ChatGPT Health to all US adults, letting connected medical records inform any conversation as weekly health queries hit 300 million.
AI Blood Test Predicts Heart Disease Up to 15 Years Before Symptoms
HKU researchers built CardiOmicScore, an AI tool that uses a single blood test to flag six cardiovascular diseases up to 15 years before onset.
Scientists Built a Synthetic Cell That Divides—But Experts Say It Isn’t Alive Yet
The SpudCell, assembled from nonliving parts at the University of Minnesota, completes a full division cycle but breaks down after five generations.
Inside Putin’s $26 Billion Quest to Conquer Aging — From Pig Organs to Immortality
Russia has launched a $26B state program to combat aging through bioprinting, gene therapy, and pig-grown organs, with Putin personally backing the moonshot initiative.
What Is a Brain-Computer Interface — From Neuralink to China’s Beinao, Explained
BCIs are now in clinical use across multiple countries, but the gap between current capabilities and public expectations remains wide, raising urgent ethical and regulatory questions.
China Makes History with First Live-Streamed Brain-Computer Interface Surgery: What Beinao No.1 Means for Future of Neurotechnology
China broadcast a landmark brain-computer interface surgery live in 4K, implanting the domestically developed Beinao No.1 device in a paralyzed patient at Beijing Tiantan Hospital.
Noland Arbaugh Is Alive, Studying Neuroscience and Will Speak at AWC 10 Days, Two Years After Getting Elon Musk’s Brain Chip
The first Neuralink patient is enrolled in college, playing chess, starting a business, and speaking publicly about life with a computer in his brain.
BOTANIC Was Trained on 1,600 Plant Genomes — and It Can Find Genetic Variants in Weeks Instead of Years
Living Models unveiled BOTANIC, an AI foundation model that analyzes plant genomes to identify promising crop variants in weeks, not years.