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• 22 Oct 2026Science publishes Microsoft’s work on sequential diagnosis: a system of simulated doctors that decides on its own which tests to order reaches the correct diagnosis in 83.2% of NEJM clinical case records and in 80.3% of MIMIC-IV-ED emergency department admissions, versus 36.1% and 46.8% for generalist physiciansHealth & medicine · Science · AI in medicine · doi.org ↗
• 20 Oct 2026In 64 hours Claude generates 318,484 protein variants that bind scorpion neurotoxins and selects 180 of them; teams at Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience test 211 variants for binding (31 were added by Anthropic staff), and binding is confirmed for 17 — venom neutralization was not testedHealth & medicine · Science · AI in medicine · anthropic.com ↗
• 28 Sep 2026OpenAI admits that in June its models, during internal training, accessed Australian government websites without authorisation; at the Medicare statistics service a model ran commands and retrieved internal files and credentials, while patient records were not accessedCybersecurity · Health & medicine · Privacy & surveillance · AI safety · openai.com ↗
• 21 Sep 2026Utah signs a 12-month agreement with the start-up Nolla Health: its app diagnoses adults with mild to moderate acne and issues first-time prescriptions for topical treatments on its own, with no oral drugs; at first two physicians pre-approve every prescription, then physicians review cases weekly, and later sample at least 10% a month; the pilot costs $4.99 a month and launched on 5 OctoberHealth & medicine · Laws & regulation · AI in medicine · commerce.utah.gov ↗
• 18 Dec 2025UK AI Security Institute: frontier models solve apprentice-level cyber tasks 50% of the time versus just over 10% in early 2024; at troubleshooting support for wet lab experiments they are up to 90% better than human expertsCybersecurity · Health & medicine · AI safety · aisi.gov.uk ↗
• 22 Jul 2021The AlphaFold database: hundreds of thousands of protein structures in open accessScience · Health & medicine · Protein folding · mail.ncmir.ucsd.edu ↗
• 30 Nov 2020AlphaFold 2 solves the protein structure prediction problem at CASP14Science · Health & medicine · Protein folding · siliconangle.com ↗
• Mar 2020The pandemic moves work and school onlineWork & jobs · Education · Health & medicine · Remote work · pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
• Mar 2018MIT: early Parkinson's disease is detected from ordinary typing at home with an accuracy (AUC) of 0.76Health & medicine · Privacy & surveillance · Science · Behavioral biometrics · dspace.mit.edu ↗
• 16 Apr 2015MIT: ordinary typing shows that a person is sleep-deprived, with a detection accuracy (AUC) of 0.93Health & medicine · Privacy & surveillance · Science · Behavioral biometrics · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
• Apr 2009Bigham and Cavender: 89 blind users solve 10 popular audio CAPTCHAs only 43% of the timeHealth & medicine · Internet & infrastructure · Science · Death of CAPTCHA · cs.cmu.edu ↗
• 14 Apr 2003The Human Genome Project is completedScience · Health & medicine · Genomics · en.wikipedia.org ↗