Roseman University has opened Roseman Bioventures at its Summerlin campus — a new life‑science incubator offering turnkey labs, regulatory support and investor connections to help Nevada biotech startups scale.

OpenAI’s nonprofit says it will grant $1 billion next year for health research and programs to blunt AI’s social impacts. The pledge ramps up a broader $25 billion plan and draws scrutiny over governance.

Harvard climate‑health leader Kari Nadeau will become dean of UCLA Fielding on July 1, 2026, bringing wildfire and exposure research experience to campus. The appointment links UCLA more directly to a major LA wildfire research consortium.

Major music publishers asked a San Jose federal judge to rule that Anthropic infringed copyrights by using song lyrics to train its Claude chatbot.

Hormel Institute scientists helped map human antibodies that bind poliovirus capsids, producing structural blueprints that could guide antiviral biologics.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics raised $350M from TPG, Allianz and State Farm to expand in Europe and scale AI crash-detection while adding engineering roles in Cambridge.

Pfizer and Valneva say their VLA15 Lyme vaccine is showing promise in late‑stage trials; a Phase 3 readout is expected in early 2026.

Quotient Therapeutics, a Flagship spinout in Cambridge, struck a potential $2.2B partnership with Merck to mine somatic genomes for inflammatory bowel disease targets.

UT Austin will add digital university IDs to Apple and Android wallets in the 2027 6 28 academic year, eliminating replacement fees and modernizing campus access. Physical cards will remain during the phased rollout.

A bright green fireball streaked over Portland and parts of the Pacific Northwest on March 23, 2026, sending a rush of video and eyewitness reports. OMSI and scientists say the color likely came from burning magnesium as the object hit the atmosphere.

Abbott has closed its roughly $21B purchase of Exact Sciences, paying $105 a share and folding Cologuard and other cancer‑testing assets into its diagnostics arm while keeping Exact’s Madison operations intact.

True Anomaly’s new Long Beach plant has landed Space Force prototype work and raised $260 million, promising hundreds of local engineering and manufacturing jobs. The company’s Jackal vehicles and Mosaic software will be built at a 90,000‑sq‑ft facility in Douglas Park.

Ohio University researchers report pegvisomant (Somavert) restored chemo sensitivity in lab models of non‑small cell lung cancer, animal and clinical tests are next.