MindBio Deploys Engineers to South American Mining Industry, Accelerates Investment in Enterprise Voice AI Health Diagnostics.

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Vancouver, British Columbia –TheNewswire - February 4, 2026 –MindBio Therapeutics Corp.(CSE: MBIO; Frankfurt: WF6; OTCQB: MBQIF), (the“Company” or “MindBio”), is pleasedto report following its recent success in meeting with mining andhealth executives in South America, it has deployed a team of softwareengineers to the mining industry in country. The team deployed will beworking with health and mining officials to build a protocol forpractical implementation of drug and alcohol screening by voice. 

The voice analytics enterprise solution being developedby MindBio’s engineers is a game changer for intoxication detectionin the mining industry, aviation and construction and wherehigh-volume testing at scale for a variety of drugs and alcoholpresents major challenges for management and law enforcement, is timeconsuming, physically invasive and expensive.  

The Company’s CEO Justin Hanka said, “MindBio isseizing its first mover advantage in voice activated AI digital healthdiagnostics by investing heavily to develop scalable solutions forworkplace health and safety related to drug and alcohol intoxication.We are excited by the response we have received and look to provide asolution to the mining industry initially in Chile and then morebroadly in South America and globally”.

National work force studies in Chile alone, show thatalcohol consumption among mining workers exceeds 75 per cent and theproportion of problem drinkers is above 40 per cent with drug useestimated in 9 per cent of the more than 200,000 mining workers in thecountry (ACHS, 2012: SENDA, 2024). Internationally more than 20 to 25per cent of all occupational accidents are directly or indirectlylinked to substance use (International Labour Organization 1996, 2022:Gomez et al., 2002). This translates to tens of thousands ofpreventable workplace incidents related to drug and alcoholintoxication, creating a large potential market for the Company’s AlPlatform.

About MindBio TherapeuticsCorp

MinBio is a biotechnology companythat conducts clinical health research and has developed a world firstAI prediction tool for drug and alcohol intoxication detection by asimple analysis of the voice. The AI prediction model uses over 50million data points to predict alcohol intoxication with remarkableaccuracy, just by using the human voice. The Company is now collectingdata that will allow its prediction tool to work on other types ofintoxication.

For further information, please contact:

Justin Hanka, Chief ExecutiveOfficer

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[email protected]

www.mindbiotherapeutics.com

About MindBio Therapeutics

MindBio Therapeutics Corp. (CSE: MBIO; Frankfurt: WF6;OTCQB: MBQIF) is a biotechnology company headquartered in Vancouver,British Columbia, that for several years has been conducting drug andalcohol research and has created health prediction technologies usingAI and machine learning.  The Company has expertise in using speechanalytics as a prediction tool for drug and alcohol intoxication andhas created a world first voice and AI powered prediction model fordrug and alcohol intoxication for use in consumer and enterprisesituations.  The Company is developing a comprehensive enterpriseplatform using voice and powered by AI for use in detecting drug andalcohol intoxication in workplaces, law enforcement, mental health andtelehealth.

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