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How Mayo Clinic’s patients are helping Merck train its AI
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (253+ words) As a lifelong Midwesterner (except for the one year I lived in Boston, which I did absolutely love), I wish there were more health and life science companies headquartered here. I'm driving to Eli Lilly's headquarters in Indianapolis today as…...
DeepMind releases AlphaGenome source code, aiming to improve its AI predictions of gene regulation
4+ week, 41+ min ago (349+ words) Megan Molteni is a science writer for STAT, covering genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. Prior to joining STAT in 2021, she was a staff writer at WIRED. Her feature on the collision of aerosol science and Covid-19 public healthy policy…...
STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (126+ words) Test your knowledge with our new weekday mini crossword Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we'll share it with others.That's right.Send us your changes,…...
Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings | STAT
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (126+ words) Test your knowledge with our new weekday mini crossword Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we'll share it with others.That's right.Send us your changes,…...
STAT+: AI has finally started making drug-like antibodies. When will it revolutionize biopharma?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (310+ words) Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT and a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work has…...
FDA offers staff 'agentic AI' to support premarket reviews, administrative tasks
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (436+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...
European oncology experts roll out guidance for use of large language models in clinical care
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (192+ words) By Katherine MacPhail and Brittany Trang BERLIN " The leading professional organization for European oncologists has rolled out its first set of guidance on how its members should use large language models, a type of artificial intelligence, in cancer medicine." "The…...
6 groups vying to lead the charge on health AI standards
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (287+ words) Brittany Trang is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT and a 2021 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work has…...
How AI helps GSK better understand COPD and MASH
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (115+ words) I'm planning to start a cross-stitch project, but I haven't cross-stitched since I was about nine years old. Anyone got tips for backstitching letters or making patterns? Email me your craft advice, favorite brief YouTube tutorials, and AI questions: [email'protected]…...
Why Silicon Valley should demand clinical trials for its medical AI
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (113+ words) By Olivier Elemento, Cora N. Sternberg, and Sean Khozin Elemento is the director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Sternberg is the clinical director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. Khozin is the CEO of…...