Stanford's SPHERE: A 'Synthetic Twin' to Unlock Sensitive Data for AI
Stanford's SPHERE turns locked biomedical datasets into shareable 'synthetic twins' for AI, and opens an Alzheimer's cohort to prove it. The promise, and the caveats.
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.