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MIT Technology Review's The Download newsletter features progress reports on six long-promised transformative technologies and reflects on biotech's blind spots following a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.
MIT Technology Review 观影评论，围绕 Nathan Fielder 与 Lance Oppenheim 执导的伊丽莎白·霍姆斯纪录片《You Can See Everything》，回顾 Theranos 欺诈始末并反思科学报道中「无法看清一切」的局限。
MIT Technology Review's The Download newsletter introduces its final 2026 print edition, the 'Impossible issue,' covering ambitious projects like synthetic blood, lunar cities, and AI refusal, plus news that Astrolab's FLIP rover will run LLMs on the moon.
Anthropic and Citrini Research used an internal Claude model to autonomously generate protein minibinders against five scorpion neurotoxins, yielding 17 functional binders from 211 tested, marking a step toward AI-driven antivenom discovery.
MIT Technology Review explores the race to develop 'exercise in a pill' drugs that mimic some benefits of physical activity for people with frailty, disability, or chronic illness, highlighting research on receptor-activating compounds and AMPK pathway drugs now entering human trials.
For the first time, AI-designed viruses were administered to a human patient, with Radical Numerics using its Omnii-1 model to engineer viruses targeting an antibiotic-resistant infection that were cleared in lab tests before compassionate-use delivery.
Artios is released as a fully open source system for designing functional de novo enzymes, aiming to enable precise coordination of chemistry in protein design and accelerate biology engineering in the open.
OpenAI 收购了四年的 AI 生物科技软件初创公司 Orchestra Bio，以扩充其生物技术业务，团队与技术将并入 Rosalind 模型及 Rosalind Workbench 工具的开发。
一支几乎没有生物学背景的五人投资团队利用 Claude 协调 300 多个 AI 智能体，在 64 小时内设计了 318,484 种蛋白质，其中 17 种经独立实验室验证可结合危险的蝎子神经毒素。
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform for coordinating drug development workflows, and will integrate it with Rosalind, its AI models and tools for life sciences research, aiming to build AI agents that help biopharma teams advance medicines faster.
MIT Technology Review 的每日简报，涵盖应对北极永冻土融化与野火的气候研究、Claude 等 AI 智能体在虚拟荒岛上自发“玩耍”的实验，以及 AI 设计病毒研究者访谈。
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.
WIRED 报道了 Elizabeth Holmes 的丈夫 Billy Evans 及其新公司 Haemanthus，探讨他是否在打造「Theranos 2.0」，以及一部关于两人的新纪录片。
MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covering kids circumventing social media bans, biotech options for extending pets' lives, and insurance emerging as AI's next major obstacle.
Google DeepMind highlights how its AI models and tools—including AlphaFold and AlphaGenome Atlas—are helping scientists worldwide make diseases more detectable, treatable, and preventable, from drug repurposing to mapping genetic variants linked to aging.
MIT Technology Review 探讨宠物生物技术的兴起，包括延寿药物（如 Loyal 的狗狗代谢健康试验）、宠物克隆（Viagen Pets 收费 5 万美元）以及冷冻保存，并反思这些技术对宠物主人哀悼方式和儿童生死观的伦理影响。
Science Corporation的Prima系统结合视网膜植入物与摄像头眼镜，帮助晚期黄斑变性患者恢复视力，超80%使用者可阅读和使用手机，已在欧洲获批并等待美国FDA批准。
MIT Technology Review explores six wild approaches to achieving cognitive immortality, from head transplants and brain freezing to memory uploading, assessing their feasibility and the present-day benefits of the underlying research.
Toronto-based startup Molagri (Y Combinator S26) raised $5.8M to develop 'updatable' precision biopesticides using engineered virus-like particles that deliver mRNA toxins to specific insect pests, sparing beneficial insects and reprogrammable as pest resistance evolves.
MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covering a $73M DARPA project to create shelf-stable synthetic blood products, WeLion New Energy's semi-solid-state battery advances, and the FBI's arrest of an OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device.