New obesity pill shows 12% weight loss in trials
BBC - 08-Aug-2025Orforglipron offers a needle-free option for tackling obesity, pending global approval
Medical Technology
What's new in medical technology related to living forever? Although it will be the underlying biotechnology that cures ageing, we'll need plenty of new technology along the way to apply new treatments and to keep us healthy.
Click the links below for news and information on specific subjects as as big data (using AI to diagnose disease), nanobots (precision guided drug delivery) and robotic surgery (not as exciting as it sounds... yet).Read more about: 3D Printing in Healthcare, AI in Healthcare, Assistive Technology, Digital Health, Digital Modeling, Laboratory Automation, Nanobots, Personalised Medicine, Precision Medicine, Robotic Surgery, Synthetic Biology.
Medical Technology News
Chai Discovery secures $70m to accelerate AI-driven protein design
Endpoints News - 06-Aug-2025Biotech startup’s valuation soars as it advances de novo protein generation with AI models.
SkinVision AI app gets EU cancer-safety seal
SkinVision - 05-Aug-2025Certified AI app offers safe, reliable skin cancer risk checks via smartphone photos
3D bioprinting could transform treatment for neurological disorders
Live Forever Club - 04-Aug-2025It’s still early days, but the technology could change medicine forever
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Karl Pfleger Explains the Aging Biotech Explosion
Inside Tracker Podcast Episode-Karl Pfleger on the Biotech Boom in Aging
InflaRx takes on inflammation with first-in-class C5a/C5aR signaling pathway strategy
Podcast from Labiotech-InflaRx Tackles Inflammation via First-of-its-Kind C5a/C5aR Pathway Strategy
6th TimePie Longevity Forum
20-Sep-2025
China's premier annual event organised by TimePie (Shanghai, China)
How generative AI and ’Photoshop for proteins’ are transforming biopharma R&D
Podcast from Labiotech-Elise de Reus explores how their platform is putting tech into biotech
Harnessing the body’s natural targeted protein degradation system to treat diseases
Podcast from Labiotech-Leveraging the body's protein degradation system to treat disease
Estonia’s biobank: Is this the first large-scale personalized medicine initiative?
Podcast from Labiotech-Estonia’s biobank: A pioneer in large-scale personalized medicine?
09-May-2025
Neko Health body scan experience
I visited Neko Health’s new London clinic – what was it like?
24-Jan-2024
Meet the Omes
The biology of ageing looks at way more than just the genome and microbiome - here's 20 to start with!
26-Oct-2023
Oxford Immune Algorithmics developing AI-driven precision medicine for all – site visit report
Algocyte platform uses algorithmic inverse problem solving to aid clinicians in their diagnosis
04-Feb-2021
Have you had coronavirus? UK COVID-19 antibody tests from £65
Comparison of UK mail and clinic tests, plus a review of the Medichecks test
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