AI Can Now Design Antibodies From Scratch. Here's the Catch
Protein language models and structure predictors can now design antibodies from scratch. We look at the hit rates, the evidence, the limits and the safety questions.
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Can Scientists Trust AI Research Assistants? What the Evidence Shows
AI research assistants can speed up literature searches, but fabricated citations and patchy recall remain real risks. Here is what 2026 studies say about which tools hold up.
AI Agents Are Learning to Run the Lab. This Week They Got a Boost
Medical AI Just Hit 90% Accuracy. But Why Can't Hospitals Trust It?
AI Just Mapped 2,812 Viruses to Outrun the Next Pandemic
AI Scribes Are Quietly Reshaping Hospital Bills, and Insurers Are Alarmed
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Why Simple Maths Keeps Beating Billion-Parameter AI Cell Models
A run of careful benchmarks shows that huge single-cell foundation models often fail to beat plain linear methods. Here is what the reckoning means for AI in biology.
Pentagon Bets $47M That AI Can Out-Evolve the Next Bioweapon
The US Department of War has awarded Flagship Pioneering up to $47 million to build AI platforms that predict viral evolution before outbreaks happen. Here's what the ONTARGET deal means for biosecurity, pandemic readiness and the AI-bio arms race.
The World Just Built an AI Factory for the Next Pandemic
As world leaders gather at the UN for a High-Level Meeting on pandemics, a new AI-powered global infrastructure (the Pandemic Preparedness Engine and Global Pathogen Analysis Platform) is quietly being built to compress vaccine development from months to days.
AI Co-Scientists Are Here, and Nature Just Put Them to the Test
A Nature feature published this week tracks how AI co-scientist platforms from Google DeepMind, FutureHouse and others are already generating validated hypotheses in real labs, and why human judgement is becoming the scarcest resource in science.
This Open-Source AI Just Beat 23 of 26 Radiologists
Alibaba's DAMO Academy has open-sourced RADAR, a Science-published AI that outperformed 23 of 26 radiologists reading abdominal CT scans for 146 conditions, free for any hospital to run.
The AI Biotech With 37,000 Virtual Employees Just Published in Science
Stanford's 37,000-agent Virtual Biotech mined 55,984 clinical trials and independently designed a lung cancer drug strategy Merck was already pursuing.
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Evolution as Training Data: How Biohub's Open Protein World Model Is Rewiring Drug Discovery
Biohub's open-source ESM models learned the rules of protein biology from evolution alone — and designed working drug binders in days. Here's what the release means, and where it falls short.
