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Are 'AI co-scientist' tools actually useful for scientists?
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (1002+ words) It's worth watching for 2-year-old Jorie Kraus, who sat on her dad's lap and reached out to hold the hand of Whitney Thompson, one of the doctors who restored her development with an AI-discovered repurposed drug. Yesterday, Google and Future…...
Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers
1+ week, 6+ day ago (223+ words) Citations in academic papers are intended to ground research in the work that preceded it, over time creating something of a family tree explaining the roots of ideas, protocols, and studies." It has become a common experience for academics to…...
When the path to good AI is littered with bad data
2+ week, 19+ hour ago (179+ 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…...
STAT reporter goes up against radiologists to spot deepfake X-rays
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (217+ 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…...
How Mayo Clinic's patients are helping Merck train its AI
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (247+ 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…...
Deep Mind releases Alpha Genome source code, aiming to improve its AI predictions of gene regulation
3+ mon, 3+ week 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…...
Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings | STAT
4+ mon, 1+ 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+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
4+ mon, 1+ 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,…...
FDA offers staff 'agentic AI' to support premarket reviews, administrative tasks
5+ mon, 2+ 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…...
How to tease out what's causation and what's just correlation
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (241+ words) By Cordelia Kwon and Elizabeth Stuart Kwon is a Ph. D. student in health policy at Harvard University. Stuart is professor and chair in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It is human nature…...