Tag: Artificial Intelligence

This AI startup, which lists Nobel laureate David Baker among its co-founders, has announced a “world model” of a cell that can simulate both its natural state and responses to successive perturbations, potentially transforming biological research. Living in a simulation Simulating a living organism on a computer (in silico) has been a dream of both...

A new study has pit an advanced large language model against human physicians in tasks involving complex reasoning, treatment recommendations, and messy real-world patient records [1]. Testing a “thinking” model The dream of a ‘computer doctor’ has existed since at least 1959 [2], but until the recent rise of large language models, no computer program...

A new system, which consists of a large LLM and a network of agentic tools, outperformed several other models and human physicians [1]. Too rare to easily diagnose Rare diseases can be notoriously hard to diagnose. Patients average over 5 years to receive a correct diagnosis, enduring repeated referrals, misdiagnoses, and unnecessary interventions in what...

In a preprint published in bioRxiv, Prof. Vadim Gladyshev and a team of researchers have used an artificial intelligence-based system to discover a wide variety of potential interventions, including a drug that significantly improves biomarkers of frailty in mice. Repurposing previous data Previous research efforts have created a massive dataset in the form of the...

George Church, a Harvard professor and a famed geroscientist, is also known as a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded dozens of biotech companies. While Church maintains that he’s involved in them all, one company has been seeing an unusual amount of his attention: Lila Sciences, where he assumed the role of Chief Scientist. On its...

Retro Biosciences, one of the hottest startups in the longevity field, was founded about five years ago by the tech entrepreneur Joe Betts-Lacroix with a $180 million investment from his friend Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. Despite its hefty war chest, the company initially pursued an image of an agile, scrappy company headquartered in...