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New AI Tool To Assist Pathologists In Complicated Lung Cancer Analyses

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that helps doctors more accurately measure a key marker used to decide which lung cancer patients might benefit from certain treatments.

Study Shows Growing Breast Cancer Risk For Younger Women, Improved Outcomes For Older Women

A national study analyzing U.S. breast cancer data spanning nearly 50 years has uncovered a major shift in outcomes and risk of developing the disease, highlighting urgent gaps in prevention and treatment for specific groups of women.

Blood Test Spots Failing Prostate Cancer Treatment Within 6-12 Weeks, Study Finds

A new blood test could help doctors identify whether a treatment for advanced prostate cancer is failing weeks earlier than current tests, according to a U.K.-wide study led by UCL researchers.

Scientists Identify A Potential New Treatment Option For Lobular Breast Cancer

Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that the drug – a LOX inhibitor – can slow the growth and spread of lobular breast cancer in mice.

New Stomach Cancer Treatment Recommended By NICE After ‘light-touch’ Assessment

Durvalumab, in combination with fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin and docetaxel chemotherapy, blocks PD-L1 protein and allows the immune system to identify and attack cancer cells.

What Would It Actually Mean For AI To Be Generally Intelligent? DeepMind Has A Framework

If the DeepMind framework gains traction, it would give researchers, policymakers, and the public something more useful: a shared vocabulary, a set of specific tests, and a way to actually track whether the technology is getting closer to human-level general intelligence, rather than just asserting that it is.

A Man With HIV Went To Fix His Blood. He Left Cured Of Both.

Rare cases like this one are more than medical curiosities. Each successful cure offers a window into how HIV behaves, where it hides, and what conditions are needed to eliminate it.

AI Just Outdiagnosed Doctors In The Emergency Room

The goal isn't human versus machine, it's understanding how AI can work alongside clinicians, and whether doing so improves care or introduces new risks.

The Clock On Internet Encryption Is Ticking Faster Than We Thought

The honest message from experts in the field is straightforward: the window for an orderly, planned transition to quantum-safe cryptography is open now, but it won't stay open indefinitely. Waiting for quantum hardware to actually pose a demonstrated threat before beginning to act is not a strategy, it's a gamble with the security of everything.

Could Genetically Engineered Brain Cells Be The Key To Beating Alzheimer's?

Alzheimer's has beaten every treatment thrown at it for a hundred years. That record won't be broken easily. But engineering the brain to clean itself up from the inside is a meaningfully different kind of attack, and one that, for the first time in a while, feels genuinely worth watching.

Scientists Just Rewrote One Of Biology's Most Fundamental Rules

Nobody had managed to create a living organism running on fewer than 20 amino acids. Until now.

When AI Agents Go Rogue, Who Gets The Blame?

As they grow more capable and more autonomous, the gap between what they can do and who is accountable for it is widening fast. Debating whether an AI deserves rights while that gap grows is, to put it plainly, missing the emergency.