Leica Biosystems, a Danaher company and a global leader in end-to-end anatomic and digital pathology solutions, today announced an expansion of its strategic collaboration with AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo to develop an immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay and image analysis algorithm, specifically for the TROP2 Normalized Membrane Ratio (NMR) biomarker in non-small cell lung cancer, for use as a research tool only.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced a collaboration with OpenAI and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to accelerate the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) across the company’s products, operations, and customer workflows.

QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced at the 2026 BIO-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston that the QIAGEN Digital Insights bioinformatics business and its curated knowledge bases and bioinformatics expertise will be integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform to help researchers use AI more effectively in drug discovery.

AstraZeneca and Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific today announced a three-year Memorandum of Understanding to help advance digital pathology capabilities and elevate cancer care across nine Asia markets, a first in the region. This landmark collaboration aims to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered digital and computational pathology through educational and training initiatives and improve biomarker testing in breast and lung cancer.

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Roche (SIX: RO, ROP; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire PathAI, a US-based company in digital pathology and AI-powered technology for pathology laboratories and the biopharma industry. This acquisition builds on the successful partnership between Roche and PathAI, established in 2021 and scaled up in 2024 to include the development of AI-enabled companion diagnostic algorithms. Subject to the closing of the transaction, which is expected in the second half of the year, the acquired entity will become part of the Diagnostics division.

Lucent Diagnostics, a brand of Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX), today announced a collaboration with Tempus AI Inc. (NASDAQ: TEM), a technology company leading the adoption of AI to advance precision medicine, to broaden access to a novel blood-based biomarker panel designed to improve detection accuracy for Alzheimer’s disease. Through the agreement, Tempus AI will build a Tempus Next care gap program for Alzheimer’s disease blood-based biomarker testing, with the LucentAD® Complete multi-biomarker blood test becoming available for neurologists to order on the Tempus clinical ordering platform.

Artera, a developer of multimodal AI-based prognostic and predictive cancer tests, announced today that it was granted CE marking under the European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (EU IVDR) for both its ArteraAI Prostate Biopsy Assay and ArteraAI Breast Cancer Assay, marking a major step in the company’s global expansion.

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, and Google Cloud today announced a landmark partnership to enhance Merck’s digital backbone as an AI-enabled enterprise. This multi-year investment, valued at up to $1 billion, will deploy an agentic platform across Merck’s research & development (R&D), manufacturing, commercial, and corporate functions – and includes Google Cloud engineers working alongside Merck teams to deploy Google Cloud’s most sophisticated AI, including Gemini Enterprise.

Boehringer Ingelheim has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) centre in London, representing the company’s latest move to drive improved patient outcomes through the technologies’ application.