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A single genetic test that can spot the culprit behind a child's mystery illness, flag a risky prenatal finding, or decode a tumor's structural chaos is now a little less sci-fi and a little more hospital procurement spreadsheet.

Your phone quietly denoises your night photos before you even see them, politely pretending the sensor did not just panic in the dark like a raccoon in a flashlight. Kang and colleagues are doing a much more extreme version of that idea: using deep-learning denoising to watch gold nanocrystals...

Three things you need to know before we begin. One: AlphaFold3 is staggeringly good at predicting how proteins fold. Two: when you ask it how proteins grab onto DNA, it gets noticeably wobblier. Three: the way we're building future training data might be quietly teaching these tools to stay wrong....

Star Trek promised a tricorder that could scan you, squint electronically, and report what was wrong before Dr. McCoy finished being annoyed. MLMarker is not that. Nobody is waving it over a patient in sickbay. But in the long campaign to make biology less of a foggy battlefield, it is the kind of...

This paper does not build a hospital robot, does not beat radiologists at spotting pneumonia, and does not announce that your X-ray has achieved consciousness. It asks a sneakier question: can a medical AI model accidentally reveal whether you were in its training data? That is less "Skynet" and...

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the evidence shows that deep-tissue imaging has a classic problem. Light is useful, tissue is rude, and water behaves like the courtroom heckler nobody invited.

High-dimensional, irregularly sampled longitudinal plasma metabolomics in small immunotherapy cohorts is the bottleneck this paper tries to kick out of the oncology lab.

Five years ago, the standard story looked tidy: give an artificial agent a maze, let reinforcement learning grind through trial after trial, and eventually it will find the reward, dignity optional. Today, according to AbdelRahman and colleagues in Neuron, the embarrassing witness is a naive mouse...

CAR T therapy is already a tiny science-fiction heist.

Admitting you’re reading about AI-designed high-voltage battery electrolytes is socially risky, like announcing you have opinions about elevator shaft ventilation, but stay with me: this is a surprisingly good building critique.

"What is news is who is showing up to fill the gap." And folks, that is the kickoff return in Gorrindo, Livesey, and Torous's new JAMA Psychiatry viewpoint: behavioral health care has a supply problem, demand is sprinting downfield, and AI tools have wandered onto the field wearing shoulder pads.

The hospital monitor keeps time with its little electronic beep, the server fans hum a low bass line, and somewhere in that fluorescent-blue groove a medical AI is learning from chest scans, ECG traces, and electronic health records. It sounds clinical. It smells faintly like disinfectant and warm...

Suppose your kidneys are the party rogue, quietly disarming traps while your heart paladin barrels down the corridor yelling, "I have excellent armor, this is fine." Zoccali and colleagues' review makes that scenario slightly less absurd: in early chronic kidney disease, the heart may already be...

If you've ever tried to find one suspicious grain of sand in a beach while the tide keeps lying to you, you know how frustrating cancer DNA hunting in blood is. This paper fixes the lying tide.

If the title committee had permitted full honesty, McCoy and Wu's paper might have been called: "Our Medical AI Passed the Exam, Met an Actual Hospital Note, and Immediately Needed a Juice Box."

1977 was when the trail went cold: researchers caught RNA being cut and reassembled in ways the old gene manuals had not warned them about, and in the nearly 50 years since, dozens of motif scanners, statistical gumshoes, neural nets, and transformer models have tried to predict the splice job...

3 reasons this paper matters, starting with the least obvious.

Back in 2018, Ahneman, Doyle, Dreher, Lin, and Estrada showed that machine learning could predict C-N cross-coupling performance from high-throughput data, which felt like handing a chemist a crystal ball - until everyone noticed the crystal ball worked best inside the room where it was trained.

Practitioners hate this matchup: the blood-pressure cuff says one thing, then the heart, brain, kidneys, liver, and blood vessels quietly reveal they have been taking chip damage for years.