Category: MedTech
All MedTech articles — August 8, 2026
Chewing gum quietly moonlights as cancer-fighting antimicrobial weapon
Bioengineered chewing gum cuts HPV by 93% and nearly erases two cancer-linked bacteria while sparing good microbes; turns out the cure was chewing, NBD.
AI Invents Viruses Nature Never Got Around To
AI designed viruses that don't exist in nature, which is either a medical breakthrough or the plot of every movie where things go badly; evolution reportedly feeling upstaged.
$24B Nuclear Startup Splits First Atom — For Medicine, Not The Power Plants It Still Can't Build
Oklo, valued at nearly $24 billion, has finally split its first atom — in a test reactor for medical isotopes, not the power plants it pitched investors. Anyway.