Frontiers

Nitrogen recycling by the gut microbiome in sarcopenia

Introduction: Sarcopenia, which is defined as loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength, affects up to 70% of patients with liver cirrhosis. Since hibernating animals maintain muscle mass through ...
Fierce Healthcare

Function Health lands $300M, rolls out 'medical intelligence' AI model for health data

Function Health, a startup that offers lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, scored nearly $300 million in series B funding, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion. Redpoint Ventures ...
TechCrunch

Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...
STAT

Wellness startup Function Health raises $300 million as consumer lab testing picks up steam

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...
Wall Street Journal

The Fed’s ‘Gain of Function’ Monetary Policy

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

Certain Windows 365 Copilot users now have access to a new feature in Excel that lets you use Microsoft's Copilot AI to generate formulas, but you might want to be careful how you use it. Microsoft is ...
Time

Function Health

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Function Health CEO Jonathan Swerdlin Many people have low-level risk factors, such as early signs of heart disease, smoldering inside their body. But ...
Fierce Healthcare

Function Health acquires Ezra to combine lab testing and AI-powered medical imaging for preventive health

Function Health, a preventive health and longevity startup, acquired Ezra to integrate Function’s lab testing capabilities with the company’s artificial-intelligence-powered full-body scans, combining ...
The White House

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Achieves Improved Safety and Security of Biological Research

PROTECTING AMERICANS FROM DANGEROUS GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to improve the safety and security of biological research in the United States ...
C&EN

Membrane Transport Modulates the pH-Regulated Feedback of an Enzyme Reaction Confined within Lipid Vesicles

School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds ...
Wired

The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...