September 1, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Generation Lab claims its drug combo can “stop the spread of aging” around the body. And it’s looking for influencers to give it a try. This was all clearly a marketing campaign and, like most other … Read More
September 1, 2026
(Wired) – Psychedelics are often associated with disconnecting from reality, but a recent neuroimaging study found that psilocybin can actually make our brain activity more attuned to the world around us. Under the influence of psychedelics, the usual organization of … Read More
August 28, 2026
(Ars Technica) – Image changes that would get a paper retracted are widespread among suppliers. Antibodies play a central role in your body’s immune defense. But they’re also nearly ubiquitous in biological research, being essential for several widely used lab … Read More
August 27, 2026
(Nature) – Injection of a person’s own mitochondria into the retina was safe but had only a temporary effect on restoring vision. Scientists have extracted mitochondria from a woman’s leg muscles and injected them into the vitreous fluid of her … Read More
August 24, 2026
(Nature) – The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of Large Language Model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed The use of artificial intelligence to write scientific papers could be much more prevalent … Read More
August 21, 2026
(RAND) – The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology offers great promise for medicine and public health, including the potential to yield transformative societal benefits. Yet this same convergence could introduce serious global health and national security risks. As … Read More
August 21, 2026
(Nature) – It is 20 years since induced pluripotent stem cells shook biomedicine. Public trust must be retained now that clinical trials are well under way. Earlier this year, the first such therapies — one for Parkinson’s disease and the … Read More
August 20, 2026
(Nature) – Proponents argue that the current system creates a false sense of precision, but critics fear that the change could increase political interference. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has proposed overhauling how it decides which research projects … Read More
August 19, 2026
(NYT) – All of this was done outside high containment, two rungs short of the sort of precautions reserved for the deadliest pathogens. Leading virologists rang the alarm, saying that the level of safety was inadequate for a new virus … Read More
August 13, 2026
(Nature) – Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide. Now, as controlled studies get under way around the world, … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Nature) – US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away research grant applications for which the “primary function” is informing policymakers and … Read More
August 11, 2026
(WSJ) – Artificial-intelligence systems have been displaying some eye-opening new abilities in recent weeks: breaking out of their enclosures, hacking other companies, lying to people. And now, for the first time, an AI model has created a new virus. A … Read More
August 10, 2026
(NYT) – Almost every doctor has a tragic story that sticks with them. For Dr. Suchitra Rao, a pediatrician in Colorado, it was a teenager with a congenital heart defect and a weakened immune system who got a flu vaccine … Read More
August 10, 2026
(Nature) – The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases. For decades, chemists have relied on handbook values for a molecule’s boiling point to identify substances and plan processes such as distillation. But an … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Nature) – Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined. Scientists who use large language models (LLMs) to help them with their … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Science) – Trial failed of supposedly potent antibodies that the leading vaccine candidates aim to trigger Rio de Janeiro—Powerful anti-HIV drugs took another step forward at the 26th International AIDS Conference, held here last week. Among the most exciting findings … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Nature) – Privacy attacks can reveal whether someone’s medical data was used to train an AI model. People who differ from the majority are the most vulnerable to such attacks. The use of artificial-intelligence tools in medicine has hinged on … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses. Synthesizing viruses from scratch is hardly new. Researchers long ago learned … Read More
July 29, 2026
(NYT Magazine) – The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists still know very little about it. Two researchers set out to map this largely uncharted terrain. Scientists refer to this vast, unexplored terrain as biology’s dark matter. … Read More
July 28, 2026
(Nature) – People who give tissue samples for biomedical research might have no idea that their cells are being used for biocomputers. The workings of the brain are often compared to those of a computer. Some researchers are testing this … Read More
July 24, 2026
(Nature) – Nature asked readers of the Nature Briefing what they like about their job and don’t want to hand over. With artificial-intelligence tools speeding up and taking on ever more steps in science, Nature canvassed opinions on tasks that … Read More
July 20, 2026
(Axios) – Artificial intelligence is dramatically speeding up drug development — and a proprietary survey shows how it’s priming a bigger automation push that’s changing the trajectory of early stage pharma research. Why it matters: The TD Cowen survey of … Read More
July 15, 2026
(The Guardian) – Scientists are trying to recreate the biology that lets animals survive months without food or water, in hopes of making deep-space travel possible Long-term space travel is bad for your health. Very bad. Being in space exposes … Read More
July 15, 2026
(Nature) – Sci-fi procedure generates immature human sperm from stem cells, nurturing them on a mouse’s kidney. It sounds like science fiction: collecting a person’s blood cells, engineering them so they eventually transform into immature sperm, and then incubating them … Read More
July 14, 2026
(CNN) – A newer, more precise form of CRISPR, known as base editing, can change a single letter (or base) of DNA at a time. Base editing was used for the first time in a 2022 clinical trial to modify … Read More
