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A 23-Year-Old Was Told He'd Never Fly. Then Doctors Edited His Genes.

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Jun 28, 2026

A 23-Year-Old Was Told He'd Never Fly. Then Doctors Edited His Genes.

He was told he'd never fly.Then they edited his blood.Now he's chasing a pilot's license.This is what science is for.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Commure Just Raised $750 Million to Fix Healthcare's Most Overlooked Problem.

Funding

Jun 28, 2026

Commure Just Raised $750 Million to Fix Healthcare's Most Overlooked Problem.

The company's latest funding round highlights a growing trend: the most valuable AI businesses are fixing industries from the inside out.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Jun 28, 2026

5 AI Health Tools Just Launched. Patients Have Questions. Doctors Have Concerns. The Industry Has Decisions to Make.

Five launches. Millions of patients. One healthcare system still figuring out the rules. Here's what changed, what matters, and what comes next.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

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Spotify's Founder May Have Just Solved Healthcare's Biggest Business Problem.

Startups

Jun 28, 2026

Spotify's Founder May Have Just Solved Healthcare's Biggest Business Problem.

For decades, prevention was a hard sell. Now healthy people are coming back before anything goes wrong.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Funding

Jun 28, 2026

5 Healthtech Funding Rounds That Map Where Medicine Goes Next

The hottest healthtech startups are not building the next big AI platform.They are going the opposite way, and investors are rewarding them for it.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

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Startups

Jun 28, 2026

Spotify's Founder May Have Just Solved Healthcare's Biggest Business Problem.

For decades, prevention was a hard sell. Now healthy people are coming back before anything goes wrong.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Jun 28, 2026

5 AI Health Tools Just Launched. Patients Have Questions. Doctors Have Concerns. The Industry Has Decisions to Make.

Five launches. Millions of patients. One healthcare system still figuring out the rules. Here's what changed, what matters, and what comes next.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Demis Hassabis Raised $2.1B. The Money Is the Least Interesting Part.

Funding

Jun 28, 2026

Demis Hassabis Raised $2.1B. The Money Is the Least Interesting Part.

What the Isomorphic Labs headlines missed, and the fundraising pattern it should make you wary of.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Jun 28, 2026

AI Just Helped Solve 18 Medical Mysteries Doctors Couldn't Crack

Researchers ran 376 unsolved cases through OpenAI's o3 model. It surfaced answers in 18 of them. Cases doctors had been stuck on for years, some for over a decade.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Funding

Jun 28, 2026

Commure Just Raised $750 Million to Fix Healthcare's Most Overlooked Problem.

The company's latest funding round highlights a growing trend: the most valuable AI businesses are fixing industries from the inside out.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Summa Health deploys 9 VC-backed AI startups.

PLUS: R1 buys Humata to automate prior auth.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Funding

Jun 28, 2026

Demis Hassabis Raised $2.1B. The Money Is the Least Interesting Part.

What the Isomorphic Labs headlines missed, and the fundraising pattern it should make you wary of.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Jun 28, 2026

5 AI Health Tools Just Launched. Patients Have Questions. Doctors Have Concerns. The Industry Has Decisions to Make.

Five launches. Millions of patients. One healthcare system still figuring out the rules. Here's what changed, what matters, and what comes next.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Healthtech Stories

Jun 28, 2026

A 23-Year-Old Was Told He'd Never Fly. Then Doctors Edited His Genes.

He was told he'd never fly.Then they edited his blood.Now he's chasing a pilot's license.This is what science is for.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Funding

Jun 28, 2026

5 Healthtech Funding Rounds That Map Where Medicine Goes Next

The hottest healthtech startups are not building the next big AI platform.They are going the opposite way, and investors are rewarding them for it.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Jun 28, 2026

AI Just Helped Solve 18 Medical Mysteries Doctors Couldn't Crack

Researchers ran 376 unsolved cases through OpenAI's o3 model. It surfaced answers in 18 of them. Cases doctors had been stuck on for years, some for over a decade.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Funding

Jun 28, 2026

Commure Just Raised $750 Million to Fix Healthcare's Most Overlooked Problem.

The company's latest funding round highlights a growing trend: the most valuable AI businesses are fixing industries from the inside out.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

Startups

Jun 28, 2026

Spotify's Founder May Have Just Solved Healthcare's Biggest Business Problem.

For decades, prevention was a hard sell. Now healthy people are coming back before anything goes wrong.

Dr. Dereck Mush, MBBS, MBA

A 23-Year-Old Was Told He'd Never Fly. Then Doctors Edited His Genes.

Commure Just Raised $750 Million to Fix Healthcare's Most Overlooked Problem.

5 AI Health Tools Just Launched. Patients Have Questions. Doctors Have Concerns. The Industry Has Decisions to Make.

Stay on top of HealthTech

Spotify's Founder May Have Just Solved Healthcare's Biggest Business Problem.

5 Healthtech Funding Rounds That Map Where Medicine Goes Next

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Spotify's Founder May Have Just Solved Healthcare's Biggest Business Problem.

5 AI Health Tools Just Launched. Patients Have Questions. Doctors Have Concerns. The Industry Has Decisions to Make.

Demis Hassabis Raised $2.1B. The Money Is the Least Interesting Part.

AI Just Helped Solve 18 Medical Mysteries Doctors Couldn't Crack

Commure Just Raised $750 Million to Fix Healthcare's Most Overlooked Problem.

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Summa Health deploys 9 VC-backed AI startups.

Demis Hassabis Raised $2.1B. The Money Is the Least Interesting Part.

5 AI Health Tools Just Launched. Patients Have Questions. Doctors Have Concerns. The Industry Has Decisions to Make.

A 23-Year-Old Was Told He'd Never Fly. Then Doctors Edited His Genes.

5 Healthtech Funding Rounds That Map Where Medicine Goes Next

AI Just Helped Solve 18 Medical Mysteries Doctors Couldn't Crack

Commure Just Raised $750 Million to Fix Healthcare's Most Overlooked Problem.

Spotify's Founder May Have Just Solved Healthcare's Biggest Business Problem.