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AI in healthcare and the life sciences — drug discovery, protein folding, diagnostics, disease research and the race to cure illness with machine intelligence.

251 stories tracked since September 2026, from 138 sources

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Moderna's Bob Langer and AMI's Yann LeCun Cellular Intelligence's board, bringing AI into medicine
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Moderna's Bob Langer and AMI's Yann LeCun Cellular Intelligence's board, bringing AI into medicine

Two of biotechnology's most influential figures—Moderna's Bob Manger and Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun—have joined the board of Cellular Intelligence, signaling a decisive shift in how the industry plans to deploy machine learning to decode the human body at its most fundamental level. The moves suggest that AI giants and vaccine pioneers alike now believe the next frontier of drug discovery lies not in traditional laboratories but in computational systems that can parse cellular behavior with superhuman precision. The question is whether this convergence will finally deliver on AI's long-promised ability to compress years of medical research into months—or whether it represents another round of hype in an industry littered with failed predictions.

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DSA Sequence In, Vessel Overlay Out With Fewer Labeled Cases
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DSA Sequence In, Vessel Overlay Out With Fewer Labeled Cases

by Mohammed El Amine Mokhtari — This piece was drafted with AI assistance and edited for a clinical imaging audience. Canonical version…

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How to Build Medical Device Software with AI: Compliance, Architecture, and Development Process
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How to Build Medical Device Software with AI: Compliance, Architecture, and Development Process

by GeekyAnts — A guide for engineering leaders on building compliant, production-ready AI medical device software, from architecture to FDA clearance.

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Agentic AI in Clinical Oncology: From AI Co-Pilots to Autonomous Tumor Board Workflows

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Insurers Say AI Is Already Increasing Healthcare Costs

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Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs

Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942M in healthcare spending over a two-year period.

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Are there any universities offering a master's in AI in healthcare?

I am looking for universities offering AI in health and would appreciate it if someone knows any university offering this degree.

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I Built a Drug Discovery Agent That Remembers Failed Ideas
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I Built a Drug Discovery Agent That Remembers Failed Ideas

by Luckyindian — What happened when I gave a multi-agent retrosynthesis system persistent memory — and made its previous experiences part of its next…

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Exploring the First Mass Luxury of the Age of AI
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Exploring the First Mass Luxury of the Age of AI

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A Stanford AI-med-ed study found doctors got measurably worse at their own job the moment the AI helping them was switched off — worse than they'd been before they ever touched it. Every credentialed profession should be paying attention.

TL;DR: A Stanford physician who spends his career teaching other doctors how to use AI just described a clinical result that should worry anyone who still calls himself the expert in the room....

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Links Hospital AI Coding To $942 Million Added Healthcare Costs

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You Found the AI Job. Now What Will You Show Them?
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You Found the AI Job. Now What Will You Show Them?

by Drfatimamehak — You don’t need years of AI experience to build an AI healthcare portfolio. You just need a few good examples that prove you know how to…

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Hospital AI use is causing medical bills to soar, with Blue Cross estimating $1 billion in extra insurance costs

Hospital AI tools are diagnosing more ailments, pushing insurance payouts higher, but insurers are fighting back.

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AI Could Make Clinical Trials More Continuous. That Changes the Drug-Development Bottleneck
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AI Could Make Clinical Trials More Continuous. That Changes the Drug-Development Bottleneck

by Nicodemus Ihuoma — Artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical research is usually introduced at the beginning of drug development.

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How Healthcare Administrators Can Use AI Without Losing Human Oversight
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How Healthcare Administrators Can Use AI Without Losing Human Oversight

by Mohammad Rizwan Mumtaj Eraki — AI in healthcare is often discussed from the clinical side: diagnosis, medical research, imaging, drug discovery, and patient care.

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Reactive Healthcare Is Broken: How Clinical AI & Hardware DePIN Shift The Meta On opBNB
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Reactive Healthcare Is Broken: How Clinical AI & Hardware DePIN Shift The Meta On opBNB

by Int4n.eth — traditional healthcare acts after a crisis. discover how SL Labs uses physical hardware nodes and clinical AI on opbnb for real prevention.

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AI Tools Drive $942M Healthcare Cost Spike, Insurers Warn

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Madison experts say AI can see cancer humans can't, but it has limits

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When his wife got sick, this doctor turned to an AI chatbot to navigate her rare cancer diagnosis. Then he invested.
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When his wife got sick, this doctor turned to an AI chatbot to navigate her rare cancer diagnosis. Then he invested.

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AI in healthcare and the life sciences — drug discovery, protein folding, diagnostics, disease research and the race to cure illness with machine intelligence.

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