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Breaking News: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is making a $30 million investment to build a quantum research lab at New York University. In exchange, the city will receive 15% of any proceeds from intellectual property developed in that lab. nyti.ms/4jUe7GD
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China is on a trajectory to lead the world in science, a development that will reshape technological advancement, innovation and the balance of global power
go.nature.com/4dC38Oe
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Today @TheLancet published our AMIE study with @BIDMC_Medicine, the first prospective study of patient-facing conversational diagnostics in a real clinic.
AMIE is a research system people can chat with before doctors appointments. Testing AMIE outside the lab with real urgent care patients showed how technology can help gather medical histories safely. Clinicians reported that the summaries helped them prepare for visits in 75% of cases and influenced their approach to care in more than half. AMIE’s differential diagnoses also matched the doctors’ final diagnoses 90% of the time giving clinicians more time to focus on patient care.
It’s Google’s first-ever paper in The Lancet’s main journal!
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International students in the US would face a $100,000 price tag to work a science job in the country after graduation under a proposal made public yesterday by the Trump administration
go.nature.com/473J5ol
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Nobel laureate Karl Deisseroth helped pioneer optogenetics, now used in thousands of labs worldwide to study how nerve-cell activity shapes behavior. But the road he took to get there, and to the prize, was a rocky uphill climb. stan.md/4rXK5Uv
@StanfordEng @bioe_stanford @Stanford
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Good choice of topic. I remember vividly standing in the back of a conference room for the spotlight presentation from Ed Boyden @eboyden3 (postdoc or student of Karl Deisseroth) in @CosyneMeeting 20 years ago thinking to myself, "Well, there is a Nobel Prize in that method development."
It is a pity that the recognition is limited to 3 individuals. Ed and Gero Miesenböck contributed significantly to optogenetics. They were all on the @BrainPrize, which was justly awarded to them all rather than just 3.
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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An unexpected and potentially big finding:
A single mitochondrial protein has an outsized role, acting as a central node, coordinating our circadian clock, temperature, dietary cues, sleep/wake cycle to control brown fat metabolism @ScienceMagazine
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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AI titan Anthropic has launched a biology ‘wet lab’ where human scientists and AI agents will work together to design and conduct experiments. The company has released one of the team’s first finds: a peculiar pattern of DNA in the genomes of several giant viruses.
go.nature.com/46K4qmC
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Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
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Researchers have identified a measure of ‘cognitive resilience’ that can account for some of the striking differences in dementia risk seen in people with similar levels of Alzheimer’s pathology
go.nature.com/4xAku5h
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program reut.rs/3UZZFCL reut.rs/3UZZFCL
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Stanford Medicine researchers have converted scientific papers into artificial intelligence agents that can answer questions, run analyses and collaborate to make new discoveries. stan.md/46MBU3P
ALT Stanford Medicine researchers have converted scientific papers into artificial intelligence agents that can answer questions, run analyses and collaborate to make new discoveries.
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Immune cells that fight stomach bugs can migrate from the gut to the brain, where they establish a lasting ‘memory’ of previous infection.
go.nature.com/46XMpB9
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Every three years the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, releases the results of international school tests sat by 15-year-olds all across the world. Anyone who cares about the young of today should be alarmed at this year’s scores bit.ly/4zXPj6g
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The floods in the Himalayas, which have left more than 1,000 dead and more than 4,000 missing, began as an unpredictable glacial avalanche. Glacial avalanches have always been a hazard wherever glaciers sit on steep mountain slopes. But as Earth’s climate warms, they will become more common.
Find out why the Himalayas are one of the most disaster-prone places on Earth: bit.ly/4cttWzG
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Trials in the US involving genetically engineered pig kidneys are beginning to build up a record of clinical success after decades of unfulfilled promise, offering hope for the future of transplants. ft.trib.al/loTHb0a
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UN votes to adopt new world map showing Africa's true size bbc.in/46I3e2S
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Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code.
go.nature.com/4zNW7TT
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Jensen Huang is truly the magician at the heart of the AI boom. Many fear he is an illusionist inflating a dangerous bubble. Look more closely, however, and the worries are mostly unjustified bit.ly/4iKpOPC
Illustration: Tim McDonagh
