Apple introduced a redesigned Apple Health app alongside Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, adding an Insights tab plus personalized assessments and guidance using Apple Intelligence. It includes a readiness score and a “Health Age” calculation, and Apple is partnering with Quest for a 50-biomarker panel priced at $119. The app adds a longevity tab and can incorporate lab results, and it will roll out later this year starting in U.S. English.
Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a system meant to predict the effects of every possible single-base change in the human genome. It scales the work to about 9 billion one-base variants by checking three alternate bases across roughly 3 billion reference positions. This provides a single software resource for evaluating non-coding DNA functions, which may speed up how biologists identify regulatory sequence variants.
MSK Innovation Accelerator opened applications for its fourth six-month programme dedicated to musculoskeletal innovation in the UK. Each fully funded venture receives more than £80,000 of specialist support, and applications close on 4 October 2026. The accelerator adds a focus area that welcomes AI-related work and offers pitching for investment, with continued support to move technologies from research toward commercialisation.
Implicity raised €35M from IRIS and Five Arrows to scale its AI platform for cardiac monitoring, which ties to a patient mortality reduction. The funding follows a reported 26% reduction in patient mortality. The company plans to expand in the United States and pursue acquisitions, while adding teams in the US and Germany.
Forus raised a $150 million Series C round led by Bain Capital Ventures, tripling its valuation to $3 billion in four months. The company’s AI agent network reaches patients in 85% of US residential ZIP codes across all 50 states. Forus will use the funding to expand into more specialties and care settings and add capabilities to its per-prescription AI agents, aiming to speed the paperwork and start of high-cost or complex treatments.
Anemo Labs raised £700,000 in pre-seed funding to develop an electronic nose that detects disease-related volatile organic compounds from body emissions. In early tests, its machine-learning models classified scent categories 84.15% across 12 categories using the Sniffin' Sticks protocol. The company will use the funding to expand its smell data collection and sensor development and to continue clinical validation for urine-based, non-invasive screening.
Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN, and IBM were named 2026 ACM Gordon Bell Prize finalists for quantum-HPC chemistry research involving protein simulations. The work modeled a 12,635-atom protein system using IBM Quantum Heron processors integrated with supercomputers Fugaku, RUQUO, and Miyabi-G. Their new fully automated end-to-end workflow on RIKEN’s ROQUO reduces manual coordination and data movement while improving protein-ligand binding energy accuracy.
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