Biotech & Medtech news — Monday 28 September 2026

MedCity News 23:12 UTC

DreaMed Diabetes has received FDA 510(K) clearance for MODI, a mobile app that uses CGM (continuous glucose monitoring) data to provide insulin dosing recommendations for people with Type 2 diabetes who need both basal insulin and…

MedCity News 22:59 UTC

The Association for Direct Care launched a coalition focused on expanding direct contracting to lower healthcare costs. The post New Coalition Launches to Expand Direct Contracting appeared first on MedCity News .

STAT News 21:07 UTC

Metal mixtures found in the leftover smoke, ash and debris from the deadly 2023 Maui wildfires were harmful to the lung health of people living nearby long after the burning ended, a new study says. The work shows that major wildfires…

STAT News 20:45 UTC

In an unexpected move, Merck discontinued an important antibiotic from the U.S. market earlier this month, underscoring concerns about the commitment large pharmaceutical companies are willing to make to a field that is crucial to public…

MedCity News 20:32 UTC

Merck now has global rights to a SciBrunch Therapeutics drug candidate designed to block mutated versions of the cancer-driving protein KRAS G12D. This class of targeted cancer therapies includes clinical-stage assets from Revolution…

STAT News 17:55 UTC

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let it enforce, for now, restrictions on gender-affirming care in federal prison. The emergency appeal comes after lower courts blocked officials from immediately…

BioPharma Dive 16:11 UTC

The Phase 3 findings suggested Kodiak might have multiple threats to Regeneron’s Eylea and added more than $3 billion to the company’s market value.

BioPharma Dive 15:52 UTC

Data from an early trial showed the company’s “gamma delta” cell therapy surpassed benchmarks set by personalized CAR-T treatments tested in lupus.

STAT News 14:55 UTC

This is the online version of STAT’s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc. Sign up here . Hello, gang. This past December , I was begging for another season of the game show “99 to Beat.” Well, great news: It’s BACK. If you’ve never…

STAT News 13:40 UTC

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. This newsletter was composed from a pediatric emergency department. Hot tip, all: Don’t jump off 6-foot playground…

MedCity News 13:35 UTC

While SUD affects people across all demographics, a growing body of research and clinical experience makes one point clear: gender meaningfully influences how substance use develops, how it is experienced, and what supports effective…

STAT News 13:06 UTC

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and invigorating. Now, though, that oh-too-familiar routine of meetings, deadlines, and the like has returned with a vengeance. You knew…

BioPharma Dive 12:52 UTC

The FDA indicated that the data generated so far wouldn’t support an accelerated clearance of “I-DXd,” a setback that erases an edge Merck and Daiichi had over multiple fast-moving competitors.

STAT News 12:22 UTC

Hello and good morning! I hope everyone stayed dry and got some good binge watching in. Speaking of which, The New York Times has finally released its full ranking of the top 100 TV shows of the 21st century. A lot of my favorites made the…

MedCity News 11:30 UTC

[Sponsored] Research from MedCity News and Cotiviti shows robust AI adoption by payers and providers, but what steps are they taking for AI governance and AI weaponized cybersecurity threats? The post Hospital and Payer AI Governance Is at…

BioPharma Dive 09:00 UTC

The next biopharma advantage will come from the talent and systems that turn discovery into scale.

BioPharma Dive 09:00 UTC

Fewer shots, no hour-long pharmacy runs: two families show what medicine built for real life means.

STAT News 08:30 UTC

Earlier this month, Anthropic reported five cases in which people used its models for work that could support biological weapons development. The cases included help preparing a proposal for gain-of-function research on a mosquito-borne…

STAT News 08:30 UTC

Blockbuster GLP-1 drugs have transformed the lives of millions of people. Lately, they’re undergoing a makeover of their own. Once promoted as tools to address obesity as a medical issue, GLP-1 drugs are increasingly being seen — and…

STAT News 08:30 UTC

For more than a century, medicine has behaved as though we understood everything about the anatomy of the heart. As medical students, we memorize its chambers, valves, and vessels. As surgeons, we operate within its well-known boundaries…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2609.30731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neurons in the visual system are selective for specific spatial and temporal stimulus features, described by their \emph{receptive field}. Estimating one means a coefficient per pixel per…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2609.31066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training quantum neural networks (QNNs) on near-term hardware remains hampered by two compounding difficulties: the exponential vanishing of gradient variance known as the barren plateau…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2609.30938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum-inspired evolutionary optimization (QIEO) represents design variables as a set of qubits and searches a continuous, multi-dimensional landscape through rotation of the qubit's…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2609.31589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct feedback alignment (DFA) trains hidden layers through fixed random projections of output error. With tanh hidden units and independent sigmoid outputs, plain stochastic gradient…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2609.29532v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Physical reservoir computing uses nonlinear dynamics and a trained linear readout to process information. Nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) resonators combine geometric Duffing…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2609.16827v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-capacity associative memories based on Kernel Logistic Regression (KLR) exhibit exceptional storage capabilities and robustness. Previous empirical studies identified a…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2606.12279v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work in ML applies genetic algorithms at inference time to iteratively improve solutions to optimization problems. The basic mutation and recombination operators involved are…

arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio) 04:00 UTC

arXiv:2609.31235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial neural networks (ANNs) usually represent neural transmission with fixed trainable weights during a training batch, which omits short-term changes in synaptic efficacy. In…

Nature Biotechnology 00:00 UTC

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 28 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03331-w The thermostability of RNA vaccines is improved with AI.

Nature Biotechnology 00:00 UTC

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 28 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03297-9 Lipid nanoparticles often show reduced performance when delivering the large messenger RNAs that encode gene editors. Screening ionizable lipids with…

Nature Biotechnology 00:00 UTC

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 28 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03330-x AGENT, an AI-driven framework integrating high-throughput experimentation with Bayesian optimization, enables the rapid engineering of thermostable…

Nature Biotechnology 00:00 UTC

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 28 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03298-8 Lipid nanoparticles are improved by including RNA cargo size in the design process.

Nature Biotechnology 00:00 UTC

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 28 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03342-7 Author Correction: Bioinstructive implantable scaffolds for rapid in vivo manufacture and release of CAR-T cells