Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health AI applications
Singhal, K. et al. Large language models encode clinical knowledge. Nature 620, 172–180 (2023). Article CAS PubMed PubMed…
Biologists Want NASA to Build a Quarantine Lab for Alien Germs on the Moon
International concerns over Earth possibly contaminating distant worlds with microbes—or our spacecraft potentially bringing a deadly alien pathogen…
Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago
Barbieri, R. et al. Yersinia pestis: the natural history of plague. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00044-19 (2020). Article PubMed …
Purine bias in bacterial genes is driven by runaway transcription
Strains B. subtilis strains were generated from 168 (bearing the trpC2 mutation), and E. coli genomic DNA was…
MAGE-A4/MAGE-A8-targeted TCR-based bispecific T cell engager in recurrent and/or refractory solid tumors: a phase 1 trial
Study conduct The trial was conducted from 19 May 2022 to 2 March 2026 (data cutoff date) in…
How Is Pfizer’s Stock Performance Compared to Other Healthcare Stocks?
With a market cap of $149.2 billion, Pfizer Inc. (PFE) is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures,…
AI-induced never-skilling in medical education
Bajwa, J., Munir, U., Nori, A. & Williams, B. Artificial intelligence in healthcare: transforming the practice of medicine.…
Czech hospital to monitor American doctor exposed to Ebola in Uganda – POLITICO
A new outbreak of the deadly disease began in May in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with…
Ebola deaths surge 30 percent as Berlin prepares for patient – POLITICO
Measures that specifically exclude foreigners are ineffective, said Jeanne Marrazzo, head of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.…
WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak – POLITICO
The WHO typically only declares a public health emergency of international concern — one rung below pandemic in…
Advancing conversational diagnostic AI with multimodal reasoning
This work advances the diagnostic capabilities of the multimodal AMIE system4,5 by integrating multimodal perception, enabling it to…
EU trumpets its reliability on global health as US slashes foreign aid – POLITICO
The strategy also condemns the “instrumentalization” of health and says closing “the emerging gaps in global health resilience”…