Measles Elimination Now Hinges on 450 Letters of Viral Code
This month PAHO decides whether the United States and Mexico have lost measles elimination status. The verdict rests on a question of viral genomics: one chain of transmission, or many separate importations?
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AI-Designed Longevity Drugs Are in Human Trials. Do Any of Them Work?
AI drug discovery has put the first ageing-focused drugs into human trials. We weigh the evidence on rentosertib, BGE-102, RLS-1496 and the ageing clocks used to judge them.
AI Is Reading Disease One Cell at a Time. Is the Hype Ahead of the Data?
Can AI Read DNA Without Being Taught the Genetic Code?
If Your DNA Trains an AI That Finds a Blockbuster Drug, Who Gets Paid?
AI Is Rewiring Microbes to Brew Our Medicines. Is It Working?
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Can an AI Chatbot Replace Your Therapist? What the 2026 Trials Really Show
AI therapy is being tested in real clinical trials. We read the 2025 and 2026 evidence on chatbot therapy for depression and anxiety, the safety gaps, and what regulators say.
100 Days to a Vaccine: Can AI Really Deliver the Pandemic Moonshot?
The 100 Days Mission wants a vaccine authorised within 100 days of spotting a new pandemic threat. We look at what AI has actually delivered, using the 2026 Ebola outbreak as a live test.
Convergent Evolution Keeps Repeating Itself. Can AI Explain Why?
Convergent evolution gave bats and dolphins sonar and turned lobster relatives into crabs. Machine learning is now finding the genes behind these repeats. Here is what the evidence shows.
The EU AI Act's Next Deadline Is Weeks Away. Should AI Drug Designers Worry?
The EU AI Act's next deadline lands on 2 December 2026. We explain what it means for AI in drug discovery, which rules the Digital Omnibus delayed, and where the real compliance work for AI-designed drugs sits.
Rapamycin, Metformin or AI? The 2026 Evidence on Longevity Drugs
Rapamycin longevity data, metformin's mixed record and AI-designed drugs compared. What the human trials, mouse studies and ageing clocks actually show in 2026.
Hospitals Are Quietly Handing Triage to AI. What Does the Evidence Show?
AI triage is spreading through emergency departments faster than the trials. We weigh the evidence on machine learning, sepsis alerts, stroke software and large language models in hospital triage.
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See allAI Can Call Drug Resistance in Hours. Should Labs Trust It Yet?
AI diagnostics can now predict antibiotic and antiviral resistance from a pathogen genome with striking accuracy. We examine the 2026 evidence, and why Europe's own susceptibility testing committee says it is not ready for the clinic.
