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Neu­ralink em­ploy­ees cite lay­offs at Elon Musk’s brain-com­put­er in­ter­face start­up

At least two Neuralink employees have posted to LinkedIn in recent days saying they’ve been laid off from Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface startup, which has received backlash for animal testing.

A former staffer working on preclinical study design and an ex-lab director working on assessing the safety of Neuralink’s implanted devices (prior to human testing) announced recently they’d been laid off, specifically using that terminology. Both had worked at the startup for at least two years.

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Raphael Townshend, Atomic AI founder and CEO

For­mer Deep­Mind in­tern launch­es Atom­ic AI to 'parse' RNA struc­ture for new small mol­e­cules

Another artificial intelligence startup has entered the drug discovery field, this time on a mission to fuel new RNA small molecules.

Atomic AI revealed a $35 million Series A Wednesday morning to boost its computational and wet lab work. The 14-employee startup will use the proceeds to continue building out its so-called PARSE platform, which is focused on predicting the 3D structure of RNA.

“There are a number of RNA transcripts of interest that we want to drug with small molecules, specifically, and a major issue across the field is that it is hard to get selective functional small molecule binders to those transcripts,” CEO and founder Raphael Townshend told Endpoints News in a preview. “And oftentimes, the mechanism of action is decreasing the amount of protein being expressed.”

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Has the mo­ment fi­nal­ly ar­rived for val­ue-based health­care?

RBC Capital Markets’ Healthcare Technology Analyst, Sean Dodge, spotlights a new breed of tech-enabled providers who are rapidly transforming the way clinicians deliver healthcare, and explores the key question: can this accelerating revolution overturn the US healthcare system?

Key points

Tech-enabled healthcare providers are poised to help the US transition to value, not volume, as the basis for reward.
The move to value-based care has policy momentum, but is risky and complex for clinicians.
Outsourced tech specialists are emerging to provide the required expertise, while healthcare and tech are also converging through M&A.
Value-based care remains in its early stages, but the transition is accelerating and represents a huge addressable market.