If we ID the DNA for a great antibody, anyone can now make it. One of the things that emerging […]
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When sycophancy and bias meet medicine
Biased, eager-to-please models threaten health research replicability and trust. Once upon a time, two villagers visited the fabled Mullah Nasreddin. […]
“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment
And Oxycyte was ideal for the group’s 2021 Ig Nobel-winning efforts. The experiments involved intra-anally administering oxygen gas or a […]
Dead Ends is a fun, macabre medical history for kids
flukes, flops, and failures Ars chats with co-authors Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal about their delightful new children’s book. In […]
Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot
Intuitive Surgical, an American biotechnology company, introduced DaVinci surgical robots in the late 1990s, and they became groundbreaking teleoperation equipment. […]
Man’s ghastly festering ulcer stumps doctors—until they cut out a wedge of flesh
The man made a full recovery, but this tale is not for the faint of heart. If you were looking […]
A bonus from the shingles vaccine: Dementia protection?
Skip to content The study shows a sharp change when the vaccine was introduced in Wales. A study released on […]
Stem cells used to partially repair damaged hearts
Skip to content Patches of stem-cell-derived heart muscle improve damaged hearts. When we developed the ability to convert various cells […]
It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs
Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate. It’s pretty easy to see the problem here: […]