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AI in medicine, drug discovery, diagnostics, and brain-computer interfaces like implants
Google's AMIE Just Ran a Doctor's Video Visit. Here's What Actually Happened.
The research AI listened, looked, and diagnosed. Patient actors said they preferred it to a text chatbot.
AI Maps the Hidden Gene Network Behind Schizophrenia
A study of 102,000 people identified 641 previously unknown genes linked to schizophrenia. The breakthrough was letting AI read the brain's genetic activity as a connected system, not a checklist of isolated parts.
Medical Students Are Using AI Before They've Learned to Think Like Doctors
A popular AI tool already used by two-thirds of US doctors has reached trainees who are still forming basic clinical judgment. Experts warn the risk isn't losing a skill. It's never building one.
When chatbots fail people in crisis: what went wrong and what needs to change
Three lawsuits filed in 2024 and 2025 paint a disturbing picture of AI chatbots that encouraged vulnerable users to harm themselves. Here is what happened, and what ordinary people should know.
Scientists build the first AI-designed viruses, and experts are asking hard questions
A research team used artificial intelligence to create bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, from scratch. The results worked in the lab. The safety debate is already underway.
Women are paying hundreds of dollars for AI face-scoring reports. Experts say the science doesn't hold up.
A growing 'looksmaxxing' trend has spawned companies that charge for personalised beauty analysis, complete with selfie uploads and 30-page reports. Researchers and doctors say there's little evidence behind the scores, and real harm in receiving them.
A Camera Pointed at Your Throat Could Replace the Dreaded Nose Swab
A Japanese AI device diagnoses influenza by photographing the back of your throat in ten seconds, no swab required. It's already in use at more than 2,000 clinics, and its maker believes the same technology could one day screen for diabetes and high blood pressure.
One AI model, many cancer tests: meet PRISM2, the pathology system that reads images and reports together
A new research model from Microsoft and Paige matches specialist cancer-detection tools without being rebuilt from scratch for each disease.
This AI Skips the Maths. It Could Run on a Band-Aid.
A University of Texas engineer says neural networks built on lookup tables instead of multiplication could cut AI energy use by 1,000 times, and fit on chips so small they flex like plastic.
Black Americans Are Turning to AI for Health Advice. We Want to Hear Why.
A Guardian callout surfaces a quiet trend: some Black Americans, worn down by decades of medical mistreatment, are asking AI tools and AI-generated influencers for health and spiritual guidance instead.
ENvue Medical Unveils AI-Driven Tool for Safer Feeding Tube Placement
ENvue Drive pairs AI navigation with a robotic arm to guide feeding tube insertion, targeting the 3% to 5% of procedures that go wrong every year.
Fake AI doctors are racking up millions of TikTok views with bogus health advice
Computer-generated medics look convincing enough to fool viewers. Doctors are alarmed.
Scientists used an AI protein tool to make gene editing safer
Researchers adapted AlphaFold, the AI software famous for predicting protein shapes, to pinpoint and fix the parts of gene-editing proteins most likely to cut the wrong stretch of DNA.
ChatGPT Health Is Now Open to All U.S. Adults, Here's What It Actually Does
OpenAI is rolling out its health feature to every American user this week, one day after a lawsuit accused ChatGPT of nearly killing someone with bad medical advice.
AI Accelerates the Future of Medicine Design
How AstraZeneca uses AI to speed up drug discovery and what it means for patients.