GenBio AI, a Palo Alto-based startup co-founded by Nobel laureate David Baker, launched AIDO Cell, a virtual cell 'world model' that simulates a human cell in its natural state and in response to drug…
Two medical professionals, Simar Bajaj of Stanford University School of Medicine and Joseph Sakran of Johns Hopkins Medicine, warn in a Guardian essay that medical students' reliance on AI tools like …
Medical trainees who rely on AI chatbots like OpenEvidence before building their own diagnostic skills risk a dangerous 'never-skilling' that could erode clinical judgment, warn researchers Simar Baja…
Researchers from Microsoft Research and Paige, now part of Tempus, developed PRISM2, a pathology foundation model trained on tissue images and language from real pathology reports, and reported in Nat…
A study from MIT and collaborators published in Nature Medicine on August 4, 2026, found that AI assistance in medical diagnosis helps non-experts mainly because they defer to the AI, even when it is …
A multi-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis of 2,563,755 individuals (54,629 cases and 2,509,126 controls) from 11 cohorts identified 26 risk loci for fibromyalgia, with the strongest…
A double neural bypass (DNB) neuroprosthetic system restored hand movement and sensation in a participant with chronic C4 sensory/C5 motor complete tetraplegia, enabling functional abilities such as s…
A Nature Medicine study pitting clinical AI systems OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI against general LLMs sparked controversy in the clinical AI world, with STAT health tech correspondent Katie Pal…
A study published in Nature Medicine in June by researchers from NYU Langone Health found that clinical AI models from OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI performed worse than general large language m…
Researchers led by E. Goh and colleagues at Google, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft argue in Nature Medicine that existing benchmarks for medical AI are misleading and insufficient, urg…
A study published in Nature Health on 6 February 2026 found that large language models outperformed local clinicians across all metrics when 101 community health workers in Rwanda submitted 5,609 real…
A randomized trial of nearly 10,000 patient encounters across 16 Kenyan primary clinics found that an AI tool called AI Consult, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o, helped clinicians produce better diagnoses …
Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to Keith Thomas, a man paralysed from the chest down, using a "double neural bypass" tha…
Neurologists at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in New York reported in a study published today in Nature Medicine that a man with quadriplegia, Keith Thomas, can now feed himself and dr…
A Mount Sinai research team led by Mahmud Omar and Eyal Klang found that OpenAI's GPT-5 amplifies sociodemographic biases in clinical decision-making, assigning higher urgency and less advanced testin…
Insilico Medicine's AI-discovered lung fibrosis drug, Rentosertib, has entered Phase III clinical trials for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, marking a rare late-stage test for AI drug discovery. The co…
Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen claimed on Joe Rogan's podcast that ChatGPT outperforms 99% of doctors, but peer-reviewed studies contradict him. A Nature Medicine study found OpenAI's ChatGPT He…
Billionaire Marc Andreessen claimed that 'Doctor ChatGPT' outperforms 99% of human doctors, but physicians and peer-reviewed studies contradict him, citing potentially harmful AI advice. A 2026 Nature…
Consumer technology is shifting from reactive healthcare to preventive medicine by using wearable sensors and AI to monitor physiological signals continuously. Devices like smartwatches and smart ring…
An international consortium of researchers pooled brain imaging data from 273 adults across 11 independent datasets and found that psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD consistently increase functional…