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Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-11-02

Research suggests bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span, pointing to skeletal signaling as a potential factor in longevity.

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OpenAI's thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents analyzed millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, completing research estimated to take humans months to a year. They uncovered new leads for neurodegenerative diseases, with human experts preferring their findings 75% of the time.

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-10-21

OpenAI的数千个GPT-Rosalind智能体在32分钟内分析了数百万个小鼠脑细胞,完成了人类预计需要数月至一年的研究工作,并为神经退行性疾病发现新线索,75%的情况下人类专家更偏好其研究结果。

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Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-19 Cached

IEEE Spectrum reports that organ-on-a-chip technologies, pioneered by Donald Ingber's Harvard Wyss Institute lung-on-a-chip, are finally gaining mainstream adoption as alternatives to animal testing in drug development and toxicology.

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ReviewPilot: A Multi-Agent System for Screening and Data Extraction in Systematic Reviews

arXiv cs.CL ↗ · 2026-10-16 Cached

ReviewPilot is a conversational multi-agent system that automates the PRISMA systematic review workflow from paper screening to information extraction, using project memory to retain configurations and providing source-backed decisions. It outperforms single-prompt LLM and AgentSLR baselines across three LLMs, achieving screening macro F1 up to 0.776 and extraction F1 up to 0.788, with case studies showing transferability to biomedicine and HCI.

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Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-10-13 Cached

Stanford researchers published in Science a method to regrow cartilage and prevent arthritis by blocking the age-related protein 15-PGDH, showing reversal of cartilage loss in mice and promising results in human tissue samples.

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Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-24

This research paper investigates how creatine uptake enhances antitumor immune responses, based on scientific findings in immunology and oncology.

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If AI 2027 is right, are we really going to make patients wait 15 years for treatments that will soon exist?

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-09-23

The article discusses how AI could dramatically accelerate biomedical research, creating a bottleneck where current clinical trial and regulatory processes may delay patient access to new treatments, calling for urgent adaptation to the pace of AI-driven discoveries.

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Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants

Ars Technica ↗ · 2026-09-21 Cached

The Trump administration plans to give Russell Vought, head of the OMB, veto power over all NIH grants, a move that could politicize biomedical research funding. This follows previous attempts to control NIH grants, which faced legal and congressional pushback.

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He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature

Wired ↗ · 2026-09-18 Cached

The article reports on AI BioDesign, a project using artificial intelligence and experiments to create molecules not found in nature, led by Nobel laureate David Baker, aiming to advance medicine and technology.

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Positioning manuscripts in the scientific landscape with agentic AI

arXiv cs.AI ↗ · 2026-09-15 Cached

The paper introduces PASS, an agentic AI system that predicts publication venues for manuscripts by analyzing literature context, achieving high accuracy and outperforming baselines, and is released as a public platform for researchers.

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A Mutation Is Making It Easier for Drug-Resistant Malaria to Spread

Wired ↗ · 2026-08-26 Cached

Researchers have identified a genetic mutation named PIN in malaria parasites that reduces sensitivity to common antimalarial drugs, spreading rapidly in Uganda and threatening malaria control efforts.

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Amping up T cells to target cancer

MIT Technology Review ↗ · 2026-08-25 Cached

Researchers at MIT and colleagues have developed a new mRNA adjuvant that boosts T-cell responses to vaccines, demonstrating promising results in mouse models for cancer and infectious diseases, which could lead to more effective treatments.

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How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing

MIT News — Artificial Intelligence ↗ · 2026-07-29 Cached

An MIT-developed medical database evolved into PhysioNet, a global biomedical data repository used by thousands of researchers worldwide, as detailed in a recent Nature Health paper.

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New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-07-28 Cached

An HIV vaccine developed by La Jolla Institute for Immunology and Scripps Research has shown unprecedented success in generating broadly neutralizing antibodies in primates, with human trials now underway.

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@StanfordMed: https://x.com/StanfordMed/status/2080452706385416506

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-07-24 Cached

Researchers are exploring agentic AI as co-scientists that can independently assist with ideation, hypothesis generation, and accelerating scientific exploration in biomedical research.

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Uniting biological toolkits for a new approach to ALS

Google DeepMind Blog ↗ · 2026-05-16 Cached

DeepMind's Co-Scientist AI tool bridges the expertise of two researchers from different biological fields to accelerate ALS research by generating testable hypotheses and identifying RNA-based mechanisms for potential therapies.

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Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-05-09 Cached

Researchers developed new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers, demonstrating efficacy against resistant bacteria including tuberculosis strains, with ongoing work towards clinical trials.

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