Medical research

Benchmarking AI's ability to answer medical questions

A benchmark for assessing how well large language models (LLMs) can answer medical questions is presented in a paper published in Nature. The study, from Google Research, also introduces Med-PaLM, an LLM specialized for the ...

Genetics

MAPLE: A phylogenetic tool for pandemic-scale genome data

With the huge abundance of genomic data generated from life science experiments, processing large datasets remains a challenge in the field of bioinformatics. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the limited capabilities of existing ...

Medical research

Study identifies four major subtypes of long COVID

The post-COVID syndrome known as long COVID has four major subtypes defined by different clusters of symptoms, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Medical research

More effective COVID-19 treatment with immune modulatory drugs

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a team of researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus significantly advances the understanding of a key aspect of the ...

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