The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language @evfedorenko.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot...

I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

The Slow Death of Epic Systems #EHR juliolatorremd.substack.com/p/the-slow-d...

Trump drug deal to leave NHS with £3bn bill www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...

FDA adopts agentic artificial intelligence in latest push to infuse AI into agency www.fiercebiotech.com/ai-and-machi...

Our Ensembl 2026 paper is out! Learn about 1,900+ new genomes, expanded pangenome support, new regulation interfaces, and what’s coming in our 2026 releases. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1239

Accent stigma - The way Uyghurs speak Mandarin (regional accents in China) www.economist.com/china/2025/1...

“I had hemophilia for nearly five decades. I went to Philadelphia and had a 45-minute infusion, and my hemophilia was gone.” Genes-> Medicine nature.com/articles/s41...

#AI for science strategy for Britain www.gov.uk/government/p...

A Return to Wholeness - AI forces a return to “natural philosophy,” just as science once needed to leave it blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/a-return-t...

The potential and limits of scrutiny in medical research www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Au-delà du #cancer, comment @institutcurie.bsky.social accompagne les enfants et leurs familles www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/specialites/...

James D Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97

#AI Models analyse language as well as a human expert- If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that #LLLs have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-ai-models-analyze-language-as-well-as-a-human-expert-20251031/

Editorial: Early Detection of Prostate Cancer — Time to Fish or Cut Bait nej.md/47tKwfA

At 23 years of follow-up, population-based PSA screening of asymptomatic men led to a sustained reduction in prostate cancer mortality, although overdiagnosis remains a concern. Full ERSPC study results: nej.md/42YYsg7 #MedSky #Oncology

How pig organs may soon save lives - Two American firms (Revivicor and eGenesis) are preparing clinical trials www.economist.com/science-and-...

Drug pricing and pharmaceutical innovation: a false promise - @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Tech’s Cronos syndrome - Will #AI labs devour the apps that run on their models? : economist.com/business/202...

QR8 - Redefining Precision Medicine reader.emagazines.com/issue/inside...

The more I reflect on the damage the AI bubble could wreak when it bursts, the angrier I get at the credulousness that has inflated it. Especially in the media, and especially the tech media, which often seems like an industry PR machine. My lastest column. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Drug pricing and pharmaceutical innovation: a false promise www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

China’s chipmakers are cleverly innovating around America’s limits pushing tools to the edge, scaling up and relying on fuzzy maths www.economist.com/science-and-...

The ADC 'rollercoaster' rides on with new generation of therapies www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/esmo...

Optimising cancer therapy in the era of technological progress dailyreporter.esmo.org/esmo-congres...

Fin des essais cliniques classiques ?: « Bras synthétiques, registres clinico-génomiques : face aux altérations moléculaires rares en oncologie, des alternatives émergent » #ESMO2025 www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/specialites/...

Harnessing #LLM in oncology: ESMO’s framework for integration in the clinic dailyreporter.esmo.org/esmo-congres...

Major advances in cancer immunobiology, immunotherapy and biomedical technology could deliver a breakthrough in cancer vaccines dailyreporter.esmo.org/esmo-congres...

The radical democratization of academic medicine www.statnews.com/2025/10/17/a... via @statnews.com

The ESMO Guidance on the use of #LargeLanguageModels in #ClinicalPractice (#ELCAP) is out: the first structured set of recommendations to bring #AI language models into #oncology safely and effectively. #ESMOAI25 #ESMO25 #LLMs #HealthAI 🔗 buff.ly/pg1gkiU

www.bbc.com/news/article... Harpal Kumar said the results were very compelling. That's because he is a businessman with a huge financial conflict of interest and a poor understanding of the science required to determine whether a screening test is useful.

The headline is appalling. The results are not exciting. Better "Test for diagnosing cancer successfully diagnoses some cancers". The test may well be useful for screening, but the right research is needed.

L’étude RIBOLARIS montre que plus de la moitié des patientes atteintes d’un cancer du sein à haut risque, avec récepteurs hormonaux positifs, peuvent éviter la chimiothérapie lorsqu’elles sont traitées par ribociclib et hormonothérapie #ESMO25 www.unicancer.fr/fr/communiqu...

Optimising #cancer care for individual patients is key to improving outcomes for all #ESMO2025 dailyreporter.esmo.org/esmo-congres...

IA Act : quels impacts pour les secteurs sensibles en Europe ? www.polytechnique-insights.com/tribunes/dig...

#LLMs scrapping @wikipedia.org deliver content taking website out of tbe equation www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution suggests advances in cognitive abilities may have led to our vulnerability to mental illness.

Our latest work is out in Nature today. In this paper, we introduce an improved version of NanoSeq, a duplex sequencing protocol with <5 errors per billion bp in single DNA molecules, and use it to study the somatic mutation landscape of oral epithelium in >1000 people www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer Susceptibility Genes jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate. n.pr/3J0HVBC

Evidence from language and mythology helps archaeologists digging a Bronze Age site on the Russian steppes archaeology.org/issues/onlin...

Publiée dans @wildlifebiology.bsky.social, une étude @dee-unil.bsky.social & @korafoundation.bsky.social révèle que les #loups présents dans les #Alpes du Nord & le #Jura consomment majoritairement des cerfs, chevreuils & chamois. www.unil.ch/news/fr/1759... #Suisse #alimentation @unil.bsky.social

Vaccine misinformation is affecting patients and researchers in Europe, experts warn #WorldVaccineCongressEurope www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Journals are automatically rejecting public health dataset papers to combat paper mills #AI www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Was the Turing Test always meaningless? www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

🤖 #ESMOAI25: Your not-to-miss sessions! AI to unlock the data vault, featuring discussions on foundation models for radiology, EHRs with AI and more! ⏰ Register by 22 October and benefit from advantageous fees #HealthAI #esmomeetings 🔗 https://ow.ly/giGO50X7yWZ

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like

PubMed is running on autopilot during shutdown, but key independent committee has been abolished www.bmj.com/content/391/...