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Synthesize Bio, a Seattle-based startup founded by leaders from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, announced $10 million in funding from Madrona Venture Group to develop an

Seattle ranked fourth nationally for AI startup funding, capturing 5.1 percent of U.S. investment, behind the Bay Area, New York, and Boston. The report highlights

AGC Biologics’ Seattle facility has achieved major regulatory and operational milestones in 2025. The site passed an FDA surveillance inspection, secured approvals in ten countries,

Bristol Myers Squibb and BioNTech reported promising global Phase 2 data for a PD-L1×VEGF bispecific drug in first-line extensive-stage small cell lung cancer. The therapy

Lila Biologics, a spinout from Nobel Laureate David Baker’s lab at the University of Washington, announced a collaboration with pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly to develop

Philips announced a sweeping set of AI upgrades to its cardiac ultrasound systems, aiming to improve diagnostic accuracy and streamline workflows for clinicians. The improvements

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s final philanthropic act is the creation of the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST), a new foundation supported by a $3.1

The Allen Institute for AI in Seattle will lead a new $152 million initiative to make AI more helpful for academic researchers, marking a shift

The Washington Research Foundation (WRF) has appointed Orin Levine as its next president and CEO, effective Oct. 6. A longtime public health leader and philanthropist,

Washington’s life sciences industry has grown rapidly over the past decade, with the workforce expanding by 50% to nearly 48,000 employees between 2013 and 2023,

Bill Gates and partners launched a $1 million global competition to accelerate Alzheimer’s research by applying agentic AI, a form of artificial intelligence that can

Scientists at Seattle’s Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) have developed a personalized modeling framework that can predict whether patients are likely to develop Clostridioides difficile