biomedical research

Stanford publishes Biomni, an AI agent for biomedical research

Stanford University researchers have formally introduced Biomni, a general-purpose biomedical AI agent capable of autonomously executing research tasks across dozens of scientific subfields, in a paper published Thursday in the journal Science. The system, which has already been used by…

Study finds mitochondria plug directly into the nucleus

For decades, biologists assumed that the energy produced by mitochondria simply diffused throughout the cell until it reached wherever it was needed. A study published in Nature on June 10 upends that model, revealing that mitochondria physically plug into the…