Amy Feldman

How Lilly Used AI To Crank Up Production Of Its Popular GLP-1s Forget the drug discovery hype. Here’s how the world’s largest pharma company is seeing a payoff from AI right now.

How Lilly $LLY used AI to crank up production of its popular GLP-1s.

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Startup MMI Wants To Use Mini Robots To Treat Alzheimer's MMI is starting FDA-approved human trials for its tiny robot to use needles the size of eyelashes to help clear waste from the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

Robotic surgery to treat Alzheimer’s sounds like science fiction. But based on research on the brain’s waste clearing system & experimental operations in China, startup MMI is beginning clinical trials that may offer hope for this terrible disease.
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Startup MMI Wants To Use Mini Robots To Treat Alzheimer's MMI is starting FDA-approved human trials for its tiny robot to use needles the size of eyelashes to help clear waste from the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

*NEW* In my latest @forbes.com feature, I wrote about the startup that’s starting early clinical trials to use a miniature robot to treat Alzheimer’s based on experimental operations done in China and elsewhere in Asia.

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Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns Vice President JD Vance says the Trump administration will “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns.

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This Looming Drug Development Gap Could Impact Patients' Health In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at cheaper biologic drugs, Novo Nordisk’s $2 billion next-gen obesity drug deal, new ways of fighting cancer, and more.

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at:
—the looming ‘biosimilars’ void
—the Bob Langer startup that signed a $2B deal with Novo
—cancer-eating bacteria
—and more!

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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.

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Frog walks through the woods, looking for spring, which, his father told him, is right around the corner. From "The Corner" In *Frog and Toad All Year*

“I walked down a patch in the woods until I came to a corner. I went around the corner to see if spring was on the other side.”

Masimo Founder Joe Kiani On The Healthtech Company’s $10 Billion Acquisition In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Jennifer Doudna’s $1 billion plan to bring Crispr gene editing to the real world, using “boring” AI in clinics and more.

In this week's edition of InnovationRx, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social talked to Masimo founder Joe Kiani about the company's $10 billion acquisition. We also looked at using "boring" AI to speed up paperwork, Jennifer Doudna's next CRISPR moves, yet another China drug acquisition by big pharma and more.

Jennifer Doudna’s $1 Billion Plan To Bring Gene Editing To The Masses Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna wants to build an entire ecosystem to bring these treatments mains...

NEW for @forbes.com: Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna’s plan to create a gene editing ecosystem to solve major problems in medicine, agriculture and climate.

“I don’t want it to be a curio, a topic of academic interest,” she says.

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The FDA Refuses To Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the healthcare giants on Forbes new Greatest Innovators list, why Garner Health is worth $1.35 billion, and more.

In today’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at
—the FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s flu vaccine
—the healthcare giants on our new Greatest Innovators list
—why Garner Health is worth $1.35B

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This Startup’s Clever Way To Cut Health Costs Helped It Hit A $1.4 Billion Valuation Garner Health uses data to identify the country’s best doctors based on quality and cost, then gives its customers’ employees financial incentives to go to them — which can save 12% on healthcare cost...

New for @forbes.com. Garner Health’s unusual approach to rising healthcare costs: create a network-in-network of top docs then reimburse employees who choose them. Now valued at $1.35B. “We’ve become a bit of a solution to the panic button,” says founder Nick Reber. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

As American Views of ICE Dim, Warehouses Become a Symbol of Resistance

The Chester, NY warehouse that ICE wants for a 1,500-person detention center is owned by an entity controlled by corporate raider Carl Icahn

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How Jeffrey Epstein Helped His Publicist Become A Big-Time Venture Capitalist Masha Bucher is one of the more high profile female VCs in Silicon Valley. New emails released from the Department of Justice reveal a deep, years long relationship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffr...

Great story by @iainmartin.bsky.social on VC Masha Bucher and her deep, years-long relationship w/ Jeffrey Epstein @forbes.com

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The owner, in a note to readers, wrote that he aimed to boost trust in The Post. The effect was something else entirely: Subscribers lost trust in his stewardship and, notwithstanding the newsroom’s stellar journalism, The Post overall. Similarly, many leading journalists at The Post lost confidence in Bezos, and jumped to other news organizations. They also, in effect, were driven away. Bezos’s sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump have left an especially ugly stain of their own. This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.

Former executive editor @postbaron.bsky.social says the Post is "a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Longevity influencer Peter Attia steps down from protein bar brand after being named in the Epstein files Peter Attia has stepped down from a role at a wellness brand after his emails with Jeffrey Epstein were made public.

When the consequences are swifter at a protein bar company than at CBS

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Sam Altman Explains The Future, OpenAI's New Device And His Musk Feud Sam Altman founded his first tech company as a teenager and was running Y combinator, the world’s leading startup accelerator, by 28. As CEO of OpenAI, the 40-year-old billionaire unleashed ChatGPT, c...

Here's our big Sam Altman profile, featuring interviews with Sam, Bob Iger, Masa Son, Jony Ive, Paul Graham and Brian Chesky. Also appearing: a uranium rod, a piece of a Concorde jet engine, a Stone Age hand axe and more … www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

Investigation Finds Credit Suisse Had Wider Nazi Ties Than Previously Known

“Credit Suisse or other Swiss banks that later merged with it held accounts for the German foreign office, which helped deport Jews to concentration camps, and for an SS officer who managed funds for the Nazi paramilitary force’s economic arm.”

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“.. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) informed Senate Judiciary staff of the outbreak over the weekend. At least two cases have been confirmed at the facility as of press time, the attorney said.”

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Reed Jobs Lost His Father Steve To Cancer. Now His Cancer-Focused VC Firm Has Raised Another $200 Million. Yosemite, which funds startups and researchers focused on the disease, is targeting a total of $350 million for its second fund from high-powered investors like pharma giant Amgen and hospital Memoria...

Reed Jobs lost his father Steve to cancer. Now his cancer-focused VC Yosemite has raised another $200M.

“We think it’s going to go from a death sentence to just a chronic lifelong disease,” he said.

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The Health Risks Of Winter Storms In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the health risks of winter storms, a new Korean weight loss drug billionaire, a biotech using AI for rare diseases, and more.

In this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter, @thealexknapp.bsky.social and I look at the health risks of winter storms, a new Korean weight-loss pill billionaire, a startup using AI to develop treatments for rare diseases, and more

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The Men Making Millions Selling Pepper Spray To ICE Safariland, owned by billionaire Warren Kanders, remains the number one supplier of pepper spray and tear gas to ICE and CBP, via a large federal distributor run by a MAGA-aligned former Marine.

🚨 NEW 🚨 The Men Making Millions Selling Pepper Spray To ICE

Safariland, owned by billionaire Warren Kanders, remains the number one supplier of pepper spray and tear gas to ICE and CBP, via a large federal distributor run by a MAGA-aligned former Marine.

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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

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That Green ‘Scam’ Is The Top Source Of New U.S. Electricity This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at aiding the power crunch with more efficient buildings and using fuel cells to help curb data center pollution

In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
☀️ Trump’s green ‘scam’ is the top source of new U.S. electricity
🏢 Aiding the power crunch with more efficient buildings
⚡️Jason Few on using fuel cells to help curb data center pollution #renewableenergy #energyefficiency www.forbes.com/sites/curren...

Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis

“a dark dystopian future becoming reality”

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Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional

Thinking about the people with polio I met while traveling in Cambodia a number of years ago. With vaccinations, polio is now considered eradicated there. Why bring it back here?

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AI Founder Daniel Nadler Is Twice As Rich After OpenEvidence Hits $12 Billion Valuation Daniel Nadler, the 42-year-old CEO and cofounder of OpenEvidence, is now worth $7.6 billion as his AI search tool surges in popularity among U.S. doctors.

Daniel Nadler, the 42-year-old CEO and cofounder of OpenEvidence has doubled his net worth to $7.6 billion after his medical AI startup hit a $12 billion valuation. First one of the year from me!

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