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Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery

A new multi-donor fund by Renaissance Philanthropy seeded by Biohub and Wellcome opens its first call for proposals.

The Story behind the Science: Preprints of pandemic potential—how bioRxiv and medRxiv brought preprints to the life sciences

ABSTRACT The bioRxiv and medRxiv preprint servers brought preprinting to the life sciences and played a critical role in disseminating COVID research during the pandemic. Here, I reflect on the birth of bioRxiv and medRxiv and the crucial role so many members of the community played, our experience during the pandemic, and the launch of the new non-profit organization set up to oversee the servers. The pandemic was a stress test for bioRxiv and medRxiv that demonstrated their value and robustness. Under the umbrella of openRxiv, they are now poised to become long-term infrastructure underpinning a new publishing ecosystem.

The FDA Sentinel Real World Evidence Data Enterprise ( RWE ‐ DE )

Purpose The US Food and Drug Administration's Sentinel Innovation Center aimed to establish a query-ready, quality-checked distributed data network containing electronic health records (EHRs) linked...

The FDA Sentinel Real World Evidence Data Enterprise ( RWE ‐ DE )

Purpose The US Food and Drug Administration's Sentinel Innovation Center aimed to establish a query-ready, quality-checked distributed data network containing electronic health records (EHRs) linked...

Moving beyond the charity framework

A healthy ecosystem for supporting open source in the long term.

$250 million, 300 scientists and 40 labs: Sean Parker’s revolutionary project to ‘solve’ cancer

The collaboration, which will be formally announced Wednesday, focuses on immunotherapy -- an area of research that many believe represents the future of cancer treatment.

Strengthening biosecurity in the era of AI

AI is reshaping biology, unlocking breakthroughs while raising new risks. Learn how smarter safeguards can strengthen biosecurity without slowing innovation.

Nature of Trust

The Nature of Trust Project is a collaboration between Biomimicry for Social Innovation (BSI) and Biomimicry 3.8 that combines biological research with real-world application to discover new models for social innovation using nature’s best strategies for building trust. Working alongside leaders in health equity and social change, the project explored how trust functions in living systems—and what those insights reveal for building stronger human relationships, organizations, and communities.

International, cross-sector collaboration commits nearly $2 billion to build foundational data for AI models to predict and treat disease

Biohub, DOE, NIH, and partners will generate open, standardized data to train AI models that predict how cells respond to interventions.

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Philanthropy 2.0: What the Evolution of For-Profit Investment Tells Us About the Future of Giving

Gaps in philanthropic funding for era-defining science and discovery demand a new approach. In this piece, we look at how learning from venture capital is a game changer for catalytic philanthropy.

Philanthropy 2.0: What the Evolution of For-Profit Investment Tells Us About the Future of Giving

Gaps in philanthropic funding for era-defining science and discovery demand a new approach. In this piece, we look at how learning from venture capital is a game changer for catalytic philanthropy.

Meet Biomni – an AI-powered biomedical co-scientist

In creating a comprehensive, AI-enabled research agent for the biomedical sciences, Stanford researchers hope to speed innovation by eliminating the tedium of scientific legwork.

Anthropic partners with the Gates Foundation

Anthropic is partnering with the Gates Foundation to commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the next four years.

Reasonable

A straightforward funding mechanism that rewards innovators and risk-takers while remaining sensitive to the social impact of new…