<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Biology &amp; Medicine | AI Tracker</title><description>Protein structure, drug discovery, lab science and biosecurity evaluations.</description><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/</link><language>en</language><generator>AI Tracker</generator><item><title>Anthropic&apos;s first drug results with Claude: six partners, one 25-hour review cut to 3 hours</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/anthropic-claude-drug-development-partners/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/anthropic-claude-drug-development-partners/</guid><description>Anthropic says Claude helped redesign a cancer therapy and drew up 35,000 antibody designs in a month. Almost none is tested in people yet.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category><category>adoption</category></item><item><title>Bio incident board: no confirmed case of AI helping with a biological attack or outbreak</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/bio-incident-board/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/bio-incident-board/</guid><description>As of 9 November 2026 the count of real-world harm is zero for every major lab. Labs do block attempts: Anthropic described five it stopped.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item><item><title>Myth check: “AI can&apos;t create new knowledge, it only remixes its training data”</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-ai-cant-create-new-knowledge/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/myth-ai-cant-create-new-knowledge/</guid><description>AI disproved an 80-year-old conjecture and designed antibiotics that worked in mice. Real finds come where answers can be checked.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>myths</category><category>math</category><category>biology</category></item><item><title>An AI-discovered drug for a lung disease entered final-stage trials; none is approved yet</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/rentosertib-ai-discovered-drug-phase-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/rentosertib-ai-discovered-drug-phase-3/</guid><description>In a 71-patient trial, lung capacity rose on the drug and fell on placebo over 12 weeks. A 320-patient final trial began in September 2026.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category><category>adoption</category></item><item><title>US regulators have cleared 1,614 medical devices that use AI, most of them to read scans</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/fda-ai-enabled-medical-devices/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/fda-ai-enabled-medical-devices/</guid><description>The FDA&apos;s list counts 1,614 AI devices since 1995, 335 of them in 2025 alone. In one study of 903 such devices, 4.8% were later recalled.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category><category>adoption</category></item><item><title>AI designed 16 working viruses that attack bacteria</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/evo-2-ai-designed-phages/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/evo-2-ai-designed-phages/</guid><description>AI designed whole genomes for viruses that infect only bacteria; 16 of hundreds built worked. Such viruses may stand in for antibiotics.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item><item><title>AI breast screening found more cancers and cut radiologists&apos; reading work by 44%</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-mammography-masai-trial-results/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-mammography-masai-trial-results/</guid><description>In Sweden&apos;s MASAI trial, AI-supported screening caught 80.5% of cancers, against 73.8% for two radiologists, with no rise in false alarms.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item><item><title>DeepMind&apos;s AlphaGenome predicts what a single change in DNA does to gene activity</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/alphagenome-nature-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/alphagenome-nature-2026/</guid><description>AlphaGenome reads up to a million DNA letters at once. DeepMind reports it matched or beat other models on 24 of 26 tests.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item><item><title>An asthma drug its maker says AI designed is in two final-stage trials of 786 patients each</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/gb-0895-ai-designed-antibody-phase-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/gb-0895-ai-designed-antibody-phase-3/</guid><description>Trials of a twice-yearly asthma injection began in late 2025 and early 2026. Results are due in 2028 and 2029; nothing is approved yet.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category><category>adoption</category></item><item><title>AI designed antibodies from scratch and 4 of 5 came out the exact shape predicted</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/rfdiffusion-de-novo-antibody-design/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/rfdiffusion-de-novo-antibody-design/</guid><description>A University of Washington lab had AI design antibodies for a chosen spot on a target. Shapes matched, but they grip too weakly for drugs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item><item><title>A Google AI reached in days an explanation a London lab had spent years proving</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/google-ai-co-scientist-validated-hypotheses/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/google-ai-co-scientist-validated-hypotheses/</guid><description>Asked how certain bacterial genes spread, Google&apos;s AI proposed the answer an Imperial College team had proved but not yet published.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category><category>autonomy</category></item><item><title>AI invented new antibiotics from scratch: 7 of 24 killed bacteria, 2 worked in mice</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-designed-antibiotics-resistant-bacteria/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-designed-antibiotics-resistant-bacteria/</guid><description>MIT researchers had AI design new antibiotic molecules. Two cleared drug-resistant infections in mice; none has been tried in people yet.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item><item><title>Doctors who got used to AI in colonoscopies spotted fewer growths without it, in one study</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-colonoscopy-deskilling-evidence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-colonoscopy-deskilling-evidence/</guid><description>Detection without AI fell from 28.4% to 22.4% at four Polish clinics after the tool arrived. A bigger later trial found no such drop.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item><item><title>AI designed a new gene editor that edits human DNA, and it is free to use</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/opencrispr-1-ai-designed-gene-editor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/opencrispr-1-ai-designed-gene-editor/</guid><description>An AI trained on over a million natural CRISPR systems invented it. It works on human DNA in the lab and is free to use, even commercially.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item><item><title>AI-designed proteins saved mice from a deadly snake toxin, given 15 minutes afterwards</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-designed-antivenom-proteins/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/ai-designed-antivenom-proteins/</guid><description>Snakebite antidotes are still made from horse and sheep blood. Computer-designed proteins saved all five mice given one after a lethal dose.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item><item><title>AlphaFold won half a Nobel for predicting protein shapes; its free database holds 261 million</title><link>https://www.justaparrot.com/e/alphafold-nobel-prize-and-protein-structure-database/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.justaparrot.com/e/alphafold-nobel-prize-and-protein-structure-database/</guid><description>Two Google DeepMind researchers shared the 2024 chemistry Nobel for AlphaFold, which predicts how proteins fold. Its results are free.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>biology</category></item></channel></rss>