Nobody gave Evo 2 a codon table. It still flags frameshifts, premature stop codons and even spots organisms that reassigned their stop codons. So what do codon-free models really learn? artificialscience.org/2026/10/can-... #AI #Genomics #ProteinDesign #Bioinformatics #MachineLearning
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You probably don't legally own your DNA. So if it trains an AI that finds a blockbuster drug, who gets paid? Read more: artificialscience.org/2026/10/who-... #GeneticPrivacy #Bioethics #Genomics
AI now designs the microbes that brew our medicines. Enzymes improved 26-fold in four rounds. The factory is still the hard part: artificialscience.org/2026/10/ai-m... #SyntheticBiology #AI #Biotech
In a 995-person trial, an AI chatbot beat group therapy on anxiety. But trials are short and crisis safety is shaky. More: #AITherapy #MentalHealth #DigitalHealth artificialscience.org/2026/10/can-...
A vaccine in 100 days. The 2026 Ebola outbreak put it to the test: first dose at 57 days, but design was never the slow part. What AI actually fixed, and what it didn't. artificialscience.org/2026/10/100-... #PandemicPreparedness #AIinScience #Vaccines #GlobalHealth
Bats and dolphins evolved sonar separately. Can AI find the shared genetic recipe? Read the evidence: artificialscience.org/2026/10/conv... #Evolution #MachineLearning #Genomics #AIforScience
The EU AI Act's next deadline is 2 Dec 2026. For most AI drug designers, it is a non-event, with a few traps. See what matters: artificialscience.org/2026/10/eu-a... #EUAIAct #AIDrugDiscovery #Biotech
Rapamycin, metformin or AI: which longevity bet has evidence? Only one reliably extends mouse lifespan. Read: artificialscience.org/2026/10/rapa... #Longevity #Geroscience #AgingResearch
AI now helps decide who is seen first in A&E, yet one sepsis model missed 67% of cases. Read the evidence: artificialscience.org/2026/10/hosp... #AIinHealthcare #EmergencyMedicine #DigitalHealth
Can AI rank the next pandemic virus before it jumps? What machine learning can and can't tell us from bat and viral genomes. #DiseaseX #AI #Virology #PandemicPreparedness artificialscience.org/2026/10/dise...
Biological age tests are everywhere, but how much can an AI-enhanced 'ageing clock' really tell you? We break down the evidence, the limits and what to ask before you buy. Read: artificialscience.org/2026/10/biol... #Longevity #Ageing #AIinHealth #Epigenetics
Can AI make lab-grown meat affordable? Algorithms now search for growth-medium recipes no human could test. Read the evidence: artificialscience.org/2026/10/lab-... #CultivatedMeat #AI #FoodTech
Is your genome training AI? How are bioinformatics pipelines adapting to protect privacy? artificialscience.org/2026/10/your... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #AIinScience
Scientific AI has plenty of ideas. What it lacks is chips, memory and fair access to GPUs. We look at the evidence on the compute bottleneck and what labs can do about it. artificialscience.org/2026/10/scie... #AIinScience #GPU #Bioinformatics #ScienceAI
Can AI flag the next animal-to-human outbreak early? We read the evidence. Read: #OneHealth #PandemicPrep #AI #Zoonoses artificialscience.org/2026/10/why-...
Can AI write enzymes nature never made? A filtered model output hit 97% activity in a study. Read the evidence: artificialscience.org/2026/10/prot... #ProteinDesign #SynBio #AIforScience #APNovo #DeepMind #AlphaProteinNovo
58% of AI trial consent forms never say what the AI does. What are patients agreeing to? Read: artificialscience.org/2026/10/do-p... #HealthAI #Bioethics #InformedConsent
Dengue hit a record 14 million reported cases in 2024. Can AI forecast the next surge? We look at what works, what fails and why simpler models sometimes win. Read it. #Dengue #AI #PublicHealth #Epidemiology artificialscience.org/2026/10/can-...
AI-designed enzymes can now dismantle PET plastic in hours. Why is industry still waiting? The evidence, explained. #PlasticWaste #AI #Biotech #CircularEconomy artificialscience.org/2026/10/plas...
AI 'lab teams' now propose, debate and test hypotheses. Some of it has held up at the bench; some has not. Here is how multi-agent AI labs really work. Read the breakdown. #AIforScience #MultiAgentAI #Biotech #AgenticAI artificialscience.org/2026/10/mult...
Sewage flags outbreaks days before hospitals. Can AI make it a true early-warning system? Read: #PandemicPreparedness #AIinHealth #PublicHealth artificialscience.org/2026/10/sewa...
AI now ranks rare-disease diagnoses better than experienced physicians in one Nature study. So why aren't doctors all using it? The evidence, the catches and the open questions. Read more: #AIinHealthcare #RareDisease #DigitalHealth #MedicalAI artificialscience.org/2026/10/ai-d...
Can 'molecular clocks' plus AI spot cancer early? The 2026 evidence is promising but mixed. What the data shows: artificialscience.org/2026/10/ai-m... #AI #Cancer #Epigenetics #Biotech
AI can now draft antibodies on screen. Reported hit rates run from 2% to 38%, but evidence is uneven. See the data: artificialscience.org/2026/10/ai-c... #ProteinDesign #AIinBiology #Antibodies
An AI has already designed working viruses. Who checks them? A plain-English map of the rules and gaps: artificialscience.org/2026/10/who-... #AIBiosecurity #Biosecurity #AIGovernance
Mpox clades are now mixing. Can AI-assisted genomic surveillance spot the next shift sooner? #Mpox #GenomicSurveillance #PublicHealth artificialscience.org/2026/10/can-...
Can you trust AI research assistants? What 2026 studies show? #AI #Science #Research artificialscience.org/2026/10/can-...
AI "scientists" now publish in Nature, and OpenAI just made always-on agents standard infra. Read the sober take, not the hype 👇 #AI #AIscientist #ScienceAutomation artificialscience.org/2026/09/ai-a...
Medical AI agents now diagnose at ~90% accuracy running fully inside a hospital's own servers. The catch: knowing WHEN to trust them matters more than the headline number. #AIinHealthcare #MedicalAI #HealthTech #ClinicalAI artificialscience.org/2026/09/medi...
AlphaFold just released free 3D structures for 2,800+ human-infecting viruses to support pandemic preparedness. Any lab on Earth can download them. #AlphaFold #PandemicPreparedness #AIforScience #Virology #DeepMind artificialscience.org/2026/09/alph...
AI now writes the clinical note and picks the billing code. A new analysis links that to $942M in added hospital costs: diagnoses up, treatment flat. So who's right? #AIinHealthcare #MedicalAI #AmbientScribe #HealthTech #HealthPolicy artificialscience.org/2026/09/ai-s...
Billion-parameter AI cell models keep losing to plain linear maths on core biology tasks. A wave of 2025-2026 benchmarks is forcing a reckoning in computational biology. What does honest evaluation actually show? #Bioinformatics #AIinScience #SingleCell artificialscience.org/2026/09/simp...
The Pentagon just paid a biotech venture firm to build AI that predicts how viruses will mutate before they do. $47M, five years, two AI platforms already screening viral proteomes. What could go right and wrong? #Biosecurity #AI #Virology artificialscience.org/2026/09/pent...
World leaders meet at the UN this week to lock in pandemic pledges. The real news: an AI 'factory' quietly built to design vaccines in days, not months. Here's what it can (and can't) do yet. #PandemicPreparedness #AI #GlobalHealth #100DaysMission artificialscience.org/2026/09/ai-f...
AI 'co-scientists' helped find a leukaemia drug and solved a DNA riddle in 2 days. Nature's new feature sorts the real wins from the hype. #AI #Science #DrugDiscovery #Biotechnology artificialscience.org/2026/09/ai-c...
Free, open-source AI just out-diagnosed most radiologists across 146 CT scan conditions. See how it works. #AIinHealthcare #MedicalAI #Radiology #OpenSource #DAMO #RADAR artificialscience.org/2026/09/open...
An AI 'biotech' of 37,000 agents read 55,984 trials and proposed a lung cancer drug strategy that Merck was already building. Read how: #AIscience #DrugDiscovery #AgenticAI #Biotech #VirtualBiotech artificialscience.org/2026/09/the-...
Ozempic's maker just added Claude AI to its drug discovery stack, alongside OpenAI. Inside pharma's new AI race: #AIHealthcare #DrugDiscovery #Biotech #Pharma #OpenAI #ClaudeScience, #Anthropic artificialscience.org/2026/09/novo...
A new AI model claims to make better flu vaccine picks than the WHO's process. A near-identical claim was already disputed in Nature Medicine. #AI #Influenza #PublicHealth #Virology #VirPLM #flu #H3N2 artificialscience.org/2026/09/ai-v...
Cell just published an open benchmark for ageing biology. Tiny specialised models beat 18 frontier AI systems. See the results. #LongevityAI #AgingResearch #OpenScience #LongevityBench #InsilicoMedicine artificialscience.org/2026/09/tiny...
BEAST X couldn't finish an H5N1 phylogeny in 21 days. Delphy did it in 42 minutes, in a browser, MIT-licensed. Read the analysis. #GenomicEpidemiology #H5N1 #Bioinformatics #Delphy artificialscience.org/2026/09/delp...
5 pharma firms trained an AI on 20,167 private protein structures, without sharing one. Accuracy: 35.6% → 52.1%. Analysis: #AIDrugDiscovery #AlphaFold #FederatedLearning #CompBio #OpenFold3 #AISB-1-Fed #MELLODDY artificialscience.org/2026/09/fede...
Rival AI labs rarely agree. This week they did: slow down, let outsiders test for risk, bioweapons included. Here's what changed: #AISafety #Anthropic #OpenAI #Biosecurity #DualUse artificialscience.org/2026/09/ai-l...
UK Biobank reopened after a data leak. AI can now unmask 'anonymous' health records that old rules assumed were safe. #AIEthics #Bioethics #DataPrivacy #Genomics artificialscience.org/2026/09/uk-b...
Anthropic just admitted it: Claude can no longer be assumed safely below the bioweapons threshold. 5 disrupted cases. 1 chikungunya gain-of-function request. #AISafety #Biosecurity #Virology #GainOfFunction #DualUse #Bioweapon artificialscience.org/2026/09/anth...
UC Berkeley's GPN-Star spots harmful DNA variants better than far bigger AI models, and trains in hours not months. Read how. #Bioinformatics #AI #Genomics #GPN-Star #GPNSTAR artificialscience.org/2026/09/how-...
AI found the target and designed the molecule. Six ageing clocks say it lowered biological age in a trial. Signal, not proof. Read the analysis. #AIDrugDiscovery #Longevity #Ageing #rentosertib artificialscience.org/2026/09/ai-d...
A first for Ebola: anonymised phone data now forecasts where Congo's outbreak heads next. An early model called all 10 hotspots. Read how. #Ebola #AI #PandemicPreparedness #Bundibugyo artificialscience.org/2026/09/ai-p...
DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas scores all 9 billion possible single-letter human DNA changes, free in a browser. Read what it unlocks and its limits. #AI #Genomics #DeepMind #DNA #AlphaGenome artificialscience.org/2026/09/deep...
Stanford's SPHERE turns locked biomedical data into a 'synthetic twin' AI can use, with real records staying put. Still a preprint. Breakdown below. #SyntheticData #AI #Bioinformatics #SPHERE artificialscience.org/2026/09/stan...