Ebola Outbreak 2026: The AI Model Exposing Congo's Hidden Epidemic
As Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak hits record size, an AI-assisted model estimates the true toll may be up to triple the confirmed count.
ChatGPT's Training Trick Just Redesigned a Bird-Flu Vaccine Protein
A Nature Methods paper borrows the alignment method used to tune chatbots and applies it to protein design, producing a heat-stable H5N1 hemagglutinin with only 45 tries.
First mRNA flu vaccine wins FDA approval. A quiet revolution for pandemic preparedness
On 5 August 2026, the FDA approved Moderna's mFLUSIVA, the first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine. The decision is small in label and large in consequence, because the same platform that produced COVID-19 shots in months can now be redirected to a pandemic influenza strain in weeks.