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1. Research

   FDA details an Expedited IND pilot to speed up first-in-human clinical trials

   Faster entry into first-in-human trials shortens the path for new therapies, including the longevity drugs this corpus tracks.

   US Food and Drug Administration·2026-10-16
2. Research

   OpenAI offers academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind

   Sponsored access lowers the cost barrier for university biology groups to try a domain-specific frontier model.

   OpenAI·2026-10-15
3. Research

   Preprint finds AlphaGenome's zero-shot predictions fall short on ALS genetics, sometimes in the wrong direction

   Genomic foundation models are being pitched for variant interpretation; this is independent evidence that zero-shot outputs can be wrong in direction, not just in size, so validate before relying on them.

   bioRxiv·2026-10-07
4. Research

   MINT, a minute-scale health-record model for paediatric emergencies, reports beating physicians on one forecast

   Most clinical prediction models work in hours or days, while bedside decisions are made in minutes. This is a step toward models that can inform those decisions, pending peer review and prospective testing.

   medRxiv·2026-10-06
5. Research

   Lilly and Novo say GLP-1 drugs lower biological age by about two to three years on aging clocks

   If drugmakers start citing aging-clock results, biological age becomes a marketed endpoint, and how much the clocks disagree with each other becomes a practical question.

   MIT Technology Review·2026-10-06
6. Research

   Google DeepMind shows SynthID Bio, a watermark for AI-generated proteins

   Provenance for designed biological molecules is a biosecurity lever that regulators and labs are likely to start asking about.

   Google DeepMind·2026-09-30
7. Research

   Microsoft Research introduces Quine, an AI research system for biology

   This is an AI scientific harness with results checked in the wet lab, a step beyond benchmark-only claims.

   Microsoft Research·2026-09-29
8. Research

   Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas maps the predicted effect of 9 billion single-letter DNA changes

   A precomputed variant-effect map makes genome-wide predictions easy to query; treat them as hypotheses until a disease-specific check like the ALS study backs them.

   Google DeepMind·2026-09-08
9. Research

   Google builds a tool to pick candidate biomarkers out of wearable sensor data

   Wearables produce far more signal than anyone can chase, so the useful product is the shortlist rather than the stream.

   Google Research·2026-08-21
10. Research

    Google reports expert-level results for a medical AI conducting real-time video consultations

    Results still come from simulated consultations with actors, not patients — but the modality has moved from typed history to live video, which is where most real triage actually happens.

    Google Research·2026-08-11
11. Research

    Meta’s vision models are running on the edge inside a wheelchair-mounted assistive robot

    A concrete answer to "what are open vision models actually for" — general-purpose perception, on-device, inside somebody’s daily mobility.

    Meta AI·2026-07-27
12. Research✓ verified

    Think it, and the robot does it: BrainCo shows a brain-to-robot platform that reacts in under 200 milliseconds

    Brain-computer interfaces have mostly lived in research demos and rehab clinics; a sub-200ms decode loop that plugs into off-the-shelf robots is what turns "thought control" from a lab trick into a control scheme other robotics teams can actually build on.

    The Robot Report·2026-07-20
13. Research

    Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs publish their playbook for keeping AI biology models safe — and useful

    Biology is where AI capability and AI risk get most concrete — this is what the leading lab's actual mitigation posture looks like.

    Google DeepMind·2026-07-16