UW protein designers get more room to test new ideas ↗
A computing grant gives UW researchers more capacity to explore protein designs, with open tools planned and laboratory evidence still essential.
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What becomes possible when we can see and shape life’s machinery?
Structure, design and therapeutic candidates, with experiments still required where predictions end.
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The evidence so far
A $1.8 billion biology coalition tackles AI’s missing experimental data ↗
New experiments, measurement technology and shared standards could help researchers predict how cells respond to interventions and choose better laboratory experiments.
Source published 2026-10-07 · EmergingCT scans may carry a second clue. ↗
A peer-reviewed study tested whether EAGLE, an AI system, could flag esophageal cancer on non-contrast chest CT scans people received for other reasons.
Source published 2026-09-22 · DemonstratedOne coordinate system for cells across species. ↗
Universal Cell Embedding was trained across 36 million cells, more than 1,000 cell types, and eight species to create reusable representations for cell biology.
Source published 2026-07-08 · DemonstratedA laboratory lead for dry AMD, not yet a treatment. ↗
Researchers used an AI system called Robin to connect biological evidence and identify a candidate direction for dry age-related macular degeneration, then tested it in laboratory models.
Source published 2026-05-19 · ExperimentalReading more of a DNA change's consequences ↗
AlphaGenome is a unified DNA-sequence model that takes up to 1 Mb of DNA and predicts thousands of functional genomic tracks, including gene expression, splicing, chromatin features, transcription-factor binding, and contact maps.
Source published 2026-01-28 · DemonstratedTwelve millimetres, or three centimetres. ↗
A breast cancer found by imaging is typically about 12 mm across. One found by a hand — a woman's own, or a clinician's — is typically about 21 mm. In India, where almost no one is screened, four out of five recorded tumours are already 3 cm or larger when they are found.
Source published 2025-12-11 · EmergingAn imaging system learns first in simulation. ↗
NVIDIA and GE HealthCare announced work on autonomous X-ray and ultrasound development using medical-device simulation.
Source published 2025-03-18 · EmergingA surgical platform explores new AI capabilities. ↗
Moon Surgical's news index lists 2025 NVIDIA Isaac and Holoscan announcements for its Maestro platform.
Source published 2025-03-18 · EmergingA miniaturized robot explores a simulation platform. ↗
Virtual Incision lists a 2025 announcement that it explores NVIDIA Isaac for Healthcare in surgical robotics.
Source published 2025-03-18 · EmergingReading patterns in glucose over time. ↗
GluFormer researchers trained a model on continuous glucose readings to study metabolic patterns and prediction.
Source published 2025-01-07 · ExperimentalAn MRI becomes a spatial view. ↗
SimBioSys TumorSight Viz turns breast MRI images into three-dimensional views for surgical planning, according to NVIDIA’s report.
Source published 2024-10-31 · EmergingMore room to read cancer genomes. ↗
Wellcome Sanger Institute explored accelerated genome analysis using NVIDIA Parabricks and GPU systems.
Source published 2024-09-23 · EmergingSeeing molecules together. ↗
AlphaFold 3 expanded structural prediction to complexes of proteins and other biomolecules.
Source published 2024-05-08 · DemonstratedA surgical ecosystem tests an edge. ↗
J&J MedTech and NVIDIA announced an MOU to test AI capabilities for a connected digital surgery ecosystem.
Source published 2024-03-18 · EmergingLooking for new antibiotic families. ↗
Researchers used explainable deep learning to identify a structural class of antibiotic candidates.
Source published 2023-12-20 · ExperimentalDesigning proteins with purpose. ↗
RFdiffusion enabled researchers to generate proteins with specified structural and functional goals.
Source published 2023-07-11 · DemonstratedA new lead against resistant bacteria. ↗
Scientists identified abaucin, a compound active against Acinetobacter baumannii, with help from deep learning.
Source published 2023-05-25 · ExperimentalA broader map of human proteins. ↗
Researchers applied AlphaFold to a broad collection of human proteins.
Source published 2021-07-22 · DemonstratedSeeing the shape of life. ↗
Researchers used AlphaFold to predict protein structures with accuracy competitive with experimental structures on many CASP14 targets. Bright's interactive p53 view uses a separate, later AlphaFold DB prediction: human p53 AF-P04637-F1 model v6, created on 2025-08-01.
Source published 2021-07-15 · DemonstratedMolecule proposals return to the lab. ↗
NVIDIA describes Genentech and Amgen drug-discovery workflows using generative AI.
Source published date unknown · EmergingPittsburgh research computing helped test genomic risk signals—not a medical test. ↗
A Northwestern-led team used Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 system to compare 211 childhood sudden-death genomes with 211 matched controls and reported associations for future study.
Source published date unknown · DemonstratedMore to follow
Short source reports on announced work, early results and emerging uses.
A prospective study tested AI-assisted mammography in routine screening. ↗
The study reported a higher cancer-detection rate with no statistically significant recall-rate difference in its setting. It is observational, limited to a particular workflow and does not establish mortality benefit.
Artificial intelligence for breast cancer screening in mammography (AI-STREAM) · published 2025-03-06Captured 2026-09-06 · a lead, not a verified achievement.Life has a shape ↗
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