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AI in biology and medicine, from drug discovery and bio-ML to clinical systems and health regulation.
3 recent briefs · newest first
Ground Truths (Eric Topol) · Aug 4, 2026, 12:44 PM EDT
Predicting Your Health Arc
A new AI model predicts individual disease risk far more accurately than standard clinical calculators, potentially enabling earlier, personalized interventions.
Owl Posting · Jul 31, 2026, 1:14 PM EDT
Why haven't organoids solved all of drug discovery?
Recognizing the physical and reproducibility limits of organoids prevents AI drug discovery models from being trained on or evaluated against fundamentally flawed biological data.
bioRxiv — Bioinformatics · Jul 31, 2026, 1:06 PM EDT
PG-LLM: Benchmarking General-Purpose Language Models for Protein Variant Ranking
Frontier LLMs can now rank protein variants with substantial accuracy using test-time compute, but specialist models remain necessary for high-stakes biomolecular design until the gap closes.