Biotech & Medtech
Biotech & Medtech news — Tuesday 27 October 2026
37 stories from 4 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Willow Acquires 2 Women’s Health Companies
MedCity News
Willow Innovations acquired Swehl and Momtech to expand its maternal health offerings beyond breast pumps. The post Willow Acquires 2 Women’s Health Companies appeared first on MedCity News .
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Patients Deaths and Data Shortfall Spell the End for Cell Therapy Biotech Artiva
MedCity News
Artiva Biotherapeutics attributed one of the fatalities to a drug used to prepare patients for cell therapy and not to the cell therapy itself. But Artiva’s setbacks follow safety signals reported for autoimmune disease cell therapy…
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Ferring to acquire next-gen IVF startup Gameto for up to $1.4B
BioPharma Dive
The buyout hands Ferring rights to a technology capable of simplifying the lengthy and burdensome process of in vitro fertilization.
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STAT+: Missouri AG warns Lilly to stop requiring data from hospitals seeking 340B drug discounts
STAT News
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) has warned Eli Lilly to discontinue its practice of requiring hospitals to provide claims data to receive discounted medicines under a federal program, a sign that more states are pushing…
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ClarityCare Raises $16.5M to Speed Up Prior Authorizations
MedCity News
As health plans grapple with new federal deadlines for prior authorization decisions, healthcare AI startup ClarityCare has raised $16.5 million to automate the administrative workload that can keep patients waiting for the care they need…
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STAT+: After two deaths in autoimmune cell therapy trial, Artiva is shutting down
STAT News
Artiva Biotherapeutics said Tuesday that it’s winding down after two patients died in a trial testing its cell therapy for autoimmune diseases, the latest in a series of safety events that have emerged in a promising research field. One…
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STAT+: FDA offers new details on quicker approval pathway for personalized gene therapies
STAT News
WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration published draft guidance on Tuesday that would streamline approvals of some individualized gene therapies, a win for rare disease advocates who have criticized the agency’s approach to these…
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Court rejects Novo bid to block Lilly obesity drug ads
BioPharma Dive
Novo failed to prove that Lilly’s campaign — which featured claims of obesity drug superiority — meaningfully harmed the Danish company’s sales, a federal judge ruled.
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STAT+: RFK Jr. goes for broke in Iowa
STAT News
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If you’re still looking for a…
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Artiva to quit autoimmune cell therapy work, cut staff after patient deaths
BioPharma Dive
The disclosure makes Artiva the third company to recently report fatal events in an autoimmune cell therapy trial, following announcements from Novartis and Bristol Myers Squibb.
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STAT+: Nonprofit resurrects shelved gene therapy after startup shuts down
STAT News
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. Read on to find out what my colleague was doing in Pennsylvania Dutch country and what the latest…
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A Market, Not a Mandate, Is the Fastest Way to Bring AI Into Hospitals
MedCity News
The cost of waiting is not evenly distributed. Rural and critical access hospitals report under 50 percent adoption of even basic predictive tools, compared with 86 percent among top-tier system-affiliated hospitals. Every year without a…
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Novo setback in court, a House probe into big PBMs, and more
STAT News
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. And it is getting off to a pleasant start here on the Pharmalot campus, where clear blue skies and comfy breezes are greeting us. As for the official mascots, they have finished…
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A possible treatment for brain-eating amoebas, found in the sea
STAT News
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here . I’m going to keep this short because I really want you to check out Jason Mast’s new story. I’ve got a bit of a teaser…
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STAT+: Pennsylvania Dutch country, tired of waiting for biopharma, builds drug company of its own
STAT News
LANCASTER, Pa. — They saved Petunia first. She was the second cow. Her brother Louie had died within hours of his birth. But over two harrowing, sleepless nights, the three researchers kept Petunia alive to wheel her from the barn to the…
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Opinion: Emergency pediatric care is now in permanent crisis mode
STAT News
In the winter of 2022, two parents carried their sick, coughing baby boy into an emergency room deep in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. The small rural hospital had no pediatric specialists, no pediatric nurses, and no children’s…
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Opinion: Cancer vaccines are finally here. How do we get them to patients?
STAT News
At the annual European Society for Medical Oncology Congress , a new report brought forward yet another monumental moment in cancer science: A Phase 3 study showed that the “cancer vaccine” intismeran autogene reduced the risk of…
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Understanding the Co-evolutionary Solution Exchange of the MOEA/D: Already the Smallest Communication Radius Gives the Best-Possible Speed-Up
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.35373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Besides domination-based algorithms such as the NSGA-II, the decomposition-based MOEA/D is one of the most popular and successful optimization heuristic for multi-objective problems. It…
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ChroNoC: A Tableless TDM Circuit-Switched NoC With Delay-Aware Deployment for Time-Sensitive Neuromorphic Computing
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.34083v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-sensitive neuromorphic architectures require predictable interconnects to preserve precise event timing. Statically scheduled time-division-multiplexed (TDM) circuit-switched…
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Functional Superoscillations in a Wave Processor
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.34111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical wave processors are constrained by diffraction, but the bandwidth of the mathematical functions they implement need not be set by it. Here, we demonstrate continuous and…
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Scaling Laws and Tradeoffs in Recurrent Networks of Expressive Neurons
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2605.12049v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cortical neurons are complex, multi-timescale processors wired into recurrent circuits, shaped by long evolutionary pressure under stringent biological constraints. Mainstream…
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MOSHO: A Native Discrete Shark-Inspired Metaheuristic for Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.33358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hardware-aware neural architecture search (NAS) requires jointly optimizing predictive accuracy and device-specific latency over discrete search spaces. While multi-objective swarm optimizers…
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Matched Specialization, Different Adaptation: Second-Moment Structure in Shared Representations
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.15830v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Small Adam-trained shared-representation networks can reach equivalent selected mean readout measurements yet respond differently to the same further learning. We use state…
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Intellectual Property Protection of Hyperdimensional Computing Classifiers: Black-Box Ownership Verification via Model Watermarking
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.34942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) offers efficient learning and inference for resource-constrained systems, yet ownership verification of its models remains underexplored. We present the…
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Edge-Centric Adaptive Neural Activation via Parametric Tanh Functions
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.34154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Within the broader landscape of artificial intelligence architectures, this paper introduces a compact, edge-centric neural framework that resolves the computational bottlenecks of modern…
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Freezing Mechanism and Topology Dependence of Information Flow Structure in Small-Scale Particle Swarm Optimization
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.33421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The neighborhood topology of particle swarm optimization (PSO) determines information propagation and regulates the exploration-exploitation balance. However, existing evaluation methods…
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Sensorimotor behaviour from an untrained brain-and-nerve-cord connectome
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.33881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Connectomes now map the neurons and synapses of an adult fly's brain and nerve cord, but how much of behaviour follows from the wiring is unknown. Here we turn one such connectome into a…
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One Mean Log-Mel Vector per Phoneme: Simple and Fast Text Injection for Speech Recognition
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.34623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text injection trains speech recognition models on unpaired text alongside paired audio. We feed the speech encoder synthetic input derived from text so the whole model learns from it…
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Evaluating Spiking MoveNet Deployability for Near-Future Onboard Spiking Satellite Pose Estimation
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.33061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: SNNs are attracting interest due to their potential for energy efficiency and event-driven processing. However, neuromorphic hardware is not yet mature enough to enable embedded deployment of…
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Progressive Lower Bound Evaluation for Urban Road Renovation Scheduling
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2602.15554v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban infrastructure degrades over time, necessitating periodic renovation to maintain functionality and safety. When renovation is delayed beyond the infrastructure's remaining lifespan…
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Organon : From Evolutionary Search to Recursive Self-Improving Agents for Scientific Discovery
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.33046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery does not follow a single fixed methodology: research methods vary across domains and evolve through experimentation as investigations unfold. Although LLM-guided…
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An Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Algorithm Based on Interpretable Active Preference Learning
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.35470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many decision-making tasks are inherently multi-objective. Interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms (iEMOAs) are particularly well-suited to help the decision-maker…
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Duration-Aware World Models for Sleep Staging with Dwell-Time Constraints
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.33033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Closed-loop neuromodulation requires sleep staging that respects stage-specific minimum dwells: stimulation policies switch by sleep stage, and a policy change is permitted only after the…
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Agentic Algorithm Design: LLMs that Propose, Formalise, and Prove Runtime Bounds for Evolutionary Algorithms in Lean
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.35595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs now prove hard theorems in Lean. Can they also design algorithms and prove their correctness and efficiency? LLM-guided design of optimisation heuristics (such as AlphaEvolve) is…
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Optimal Connectivity of Random Boolean Networks for Reservoir Computing
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.33498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reservoir computing shifts the focus from training a system's internal dynamics to designing dynamics that expose useful computational capabilities via linear projection. We study random…
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TRON: Transferring Naturally Evolved Network Architectures into Neuroevolution
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.35647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) is challenging because of the vast, non-linear space of artificial neural network (ANN) topologies. Evolutionary methods can generate architectures, but their…
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A Dynamic Decomposition Strategy for the MOEA/D With Proven Performance Guarantees
arXiv cs.NE (Neural／Bio)
arXiv:2610.35334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The MOEA/D is one of the most successful multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. It operates by decomposing the optimization problem into single-objective subproblems, which are then solved…