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Molecular testing is moving to the point of care. Roche said on December 2, 2025 that its cobas liat Bordetella test received FDA 510(k) clearance and a CLIA waiver, with results in about 15 minutes, per the company. On August 6, 2026, Co-Diagnostics announced a dual 510(k) with a concurrent…
NIH's All of Us Research Program became the world's largest integrated genomic and electronic health record database with its June 30, 2026 release, which per the agency's announcement makes data from more than 747,000 participants available to scientists and includes more than 535,000 whole…
Three dated milestones define modern research computing for biology: Frontier at Oak Ridge measured 1.1 exaflops in May 2022, the AlphaFold database expanded past 200 million predicted structures in July 2022, and AlphaFold 3 extended prediction to biomolecular complexes in May 2024, per ORNL,…
Tandem Health, a Stockholm-based digital health company building an AI medical assistant for clinical documentation, has raised $100 million in Series B funding led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, the company announced on September 14, 2026. The round brings Tandem's total funding to…
US bioeconomy policy in September 2026 still has no replacement for Executive Order 14081, the September 2022 directive that organized federal biotechnology strategy, eighteen months after its revocation on March 14, 2025. The operative instruments are legacy programs and a 2025…
The University of Minnesota has quadrupled its biomanufacturing capability with a new facility on its St. Paul campus, per the university's August 14, 2026 announcement. Minnesota Biomanufacturing Services, formerly the Biotechnology Resource Center, is five times larger than its predecessor…