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Veteran life sciences firm RA Capital spins up ‘planetary health’ team to ride climate tech wave

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Partners at RA Capital realized that if they didn't try to address climate change and its health effects, their life science investments wouldn't be as impactful. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Generative AI’s most noble mission: Improving and saving lives

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is ideally suited to life sciences. trillion spent in annual healthcare expenditures are for people with chronic and mental health conditions. trillion spent in annual healthcare expenditures are for people with chronic and mental health conditions. It’s one of technology’s most profound and noble moments.AI Here’s why.

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Microsoft Copilot will transform the healthcare profession. Here’s how

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New research from Avanade, a technology company that specialises in the Microsoft platform, has revealed that 56% of healthcare and life-science professionals already use AI daily in their current roles. The research also demonstrates a willingness across the sector to use Microsoft Copilot to help reduce the workload placed on staff.

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Tune in, SPAC on, drop LSD

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No, not like drugs for fun, but instead drugs that you might have considered fun, but are now being redirected to help bolster your health. As it turns out, there are a number of startups and even nascently public companies that are pursing using drugs that we might consider recreational for serious health purposes.

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Trusting your gut microbiome with Cheryl Sew Hoy from Tiny Health

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This week, Cheryl Sew Hoy, the founder of Tiny Health , tells Darrell and Becca about the complex science behind baby gut microbiomes. Sew Hoy talks about why she got interested in the subject, what it was like researching the field and how she turned her findings into Tiny Health’s suite of gut microbiome testing kits.

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Humanity launches ‘slow your aging’ app in the UK and raises $2.5M more from health investors

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You name it, there’s a health app for it. million, from 65 health-tech and consumer-tech investors, taking its total raised to $5 million. This is not beyond normal science. It’s because other people of your age and health profile did that, and you’re being compared to that real-world data. The list goes on. Humanity app.

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6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies

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Matias Serebrinsky is a partner at PsyMed Ventures, a venture fund expanding access to psychedelic medicine and mental health tech. We believe psychedelic medicine and progress in digital therapeutics, precision psychiatry and neurotechnology will revolutionize how mental health is treated. Matias Serebrinsky. Contributor. Greg Kubin.

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