The Hidden Diagnostic Crisis: When Human Expertise Isn’t Enough AI vs doctors: Consider going to see dozens of specialists and yet not having answers after living 17 years with debilitating symptoms. And that is what happened to Emily, a patient whose unknown condition consists of striking nerve pain, muscle weakness, and seizures who, at last, […]
Think of a lab full of robots that run 24/7 trying all possible combinations of drugs whilst artificial intelligence figures out who might cure what disease-before a human chemist picks up a pipette. This is not a science fiction, but it occurs now. Startups, such as Insilico Medicine and Recursion Pharmaceuticals, are cutting drug discovery […]
A Bizarre Virology Breakthrough That Feels Like Science Fiction Consider a virus that not only attacks the cells, the virus attacks other viruses like the microscopic Dracula. This sounds like a horror movie, no? But that is precisely what a team of researchers at the University of Maryland and NASA Astrobiology Institute has found. They […]
The Un likely Underdog of the AI World Do you recall when larger was better in AI? GPT-4 and Gemini have made news with their enormous size -175 trillion parameters in one case, multi-modal in the other. However, in 2024 a silent revolution is afoot. The attention is being stolen by Small Language Models (SLMs): […]
What if tomorrow science was not only about human beings making discoveries- but machines aiding us in making them quicker, smarter, and more ethical? The new Doudna supercomputer is pledged to do just that. It is named after Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel prize-winning co-discoverer of CRISPR, and this state-of-the-art machine is being constructed not merely […]
Long COVID and Autoantibodies: Consider rising each morning and feeling as though you are trudging through wet cement-your mind dull, your muscles lead like, your energy level non existent. This is the truth of Long COVID, the condition that does not disappear despite the disappeared virus in the bodies of 65 million individuals across the […]