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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 6, 2026Published at 2:03 AM EDT · New York
AI moves into regulated care and outbreak response as Nvidia-backed startups target breast cancer and Congo health authorities use Claude for Ebola
Startups with Food and Drug Administration clearance are cutting breast ultrasound capture to about two minutes per breast, and laboratories in the Democratic Republic of Congo are assembling Ebola genomes from natural-language instructions.
Nvidia profiled four startups from its Inception program working across the breast cancer care pathway. iSono Health's ATUSA, a wearable automated 3D ultrasound system with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance, captures a standardiz…
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