Intero Biosystems’ Lab-Grown Mini-Intestines Win Disrupt 2026 — and Big Pharma’s Attention

Intero Biosystems’ Lab-Grown Mini-Intestines Win Disrupt 2026 — and Big Pharma’s Attention

Intero Biosystems, a Denver startup spun out of the University of Michigan, has won the Startup Battlefield competition at Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco, taking home the $100,000 prize and the cup. It beat 19 rivals in a 20-strong finalist field drawn from the Battlefield 200, pitching a technology that could reshape how pharmaceutical companies … Read more

Google, Meta and Biohub Bet $1.8B on the First AI ‘Virtual Cell’

Google, Meta and Biohub Bet .8B on the First AI ‘Virtual Cell’

A cross-sector coalition led by Biohub, Google DeepMind, Meta and Isomorphic Labs — with backing from two US federal agencies — has committed roughly $1.8 billion to build the first predictive “virtual cell”: an AI model engineered to simulate how living cells behave, sicken and respond to treatment. Announced on October 7, 2026 under the … Read more