September 21, 2026
(WSJ) – The Ozempic maker is partnering with the artificial-intelligence firm to speed up drug development Novo Nordisk, the Danish drugmaker behind blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, is partnering with Anthropic to use artificial intelligence for drug … Read More
September 18, 2026
(NYT) – The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already are calling for new ethical guidelines. In order to learn more about brain disorders, scientists reported on … Read More
September 18, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – The OpenAI Foundation is funding a new effort called Data for Public Health. Last year Ruxandra Teslo, a policy analyst who focuses on clinical trials, posted an idea for supercharging medical AI systems: Use data from … Read More
September 17, 2026
(Ars Technica) – But even the most sophisticated organoids lack a lot of the features of a real human body. This is especially true for brain organoids, which don’t form any of the connections with specialized brain structures needed to … Read More
September 16, 2026
(Nature) – UK Biobank is imposing new safety measures after a security incident, but safeguarding biomedical data while enabling researcher access remains a challenge. On a Tuesday in mid-April, UK Biobank — one of the largest and most comprehensive health-tracking … Read More
September 16, 2026
(Nature) – Wearable technology is a boon for studying health behaviours, but it comes with some thorny ethical concerns, says researcher Wuyoh Sui. Wuyoh Sui, a digital-health and behavioural-change researcher at Western University in London, Canada, has been studying how … Read More
September 15, 2026
(Nature) – An AI system trained on more than 20,000 protein structures from pharmaceutical companies outperforms AlphaFold-like models that use only public data. For drug discovery, protein-folding models such as AlphaFold have a problem: there aren’t enough data in public … Read More
September 10, 2026
(NYT) – In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work. Anthropic said it had disrupted several potential plots this year … Read More
September 7, 2026
(Gizmodo) – An AI-generated drug showed early signs of potentially slowing aging, according to a new study out today in Nature Biotechnology, possibly taking the first small step towards using AI to cure all the diseases tech companies companies keep … Read More
September 7, 2026
(Financial Times) – Executives and biosecurity experts are concerned that future models could help users create novel viruses or bioweapons AI groups are racing to address the risk that future models could help users create novel viruses or bioweapons, amid … Read More
September 4, 2026
(The Atlantic) – What else, she wondered, did meditation teachers know that they weren’t telling people? Gradually, starting with that sleep study, the tiers of thought propping up Britton’s worldview—that Buddhism is a cure-all, and that meditation was always beneficial, … Read More
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
