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Digital Biology @ NVIDIA
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At NVIDIA, we have the privilege of working with companies that are changing how care is delivered. We’re an accelerated computing company, but our partners bring us into problems I might never learn about otherwise.

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, @NVIDIA Inception is highlighting four companies working on different parts of breast cancer care.

At @isonohealth, researchers are working to solve for the variation in handheld ultrasound between different operator’s technique, which makes comparing scans across visits difficult. Their automated system captures a standardized scan in about two minutes, giving clinicians a more repeatable view to track changes.

@whiterabbitai is tackling the workload of breast cancer screening, where radiologists review large numbers of mammograms to find relatively few cancers. Alongside its breast-density assessment software, the team is researching how AI could identify negative scans automatically and help radiologists focus on cases needing closer review.

Then there’s the question of what to do after a diagnosis. @Ataraxis_AI uses pathology slides and clinical data already collected during care to help assess recurrence risk and whether chemotherapy is likely to benefit a patient. This means getting more from existing data and reducing extra scans.

@SimBioSys focuses on treatment planning. Surgeons need to understand how a tumor sits relative to the tissue around it. The company builds 3D models that make those relationships easier to visualize and help inform surgical decisions.

More on each of these companies and how NVIDIA is accelerating their work here: blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-breast…
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How is AI accelerating scientific progress?

On October 7, I'm moderating a conversation with three founders and leaders working on that question:
• Michelle Lee, CEO of @medra_ai
• Andy Beam, CTO of @LilaSciences
• Gleb Kuznetsov, CEO of @ManifoldBio

@AnthropicAI and @nvidia are bringing together founders, researchers, and builders at Claude Founder House during #SFTechWeek to talk about AI for science and drug discovery.

We’ll start with a short panel, then continue the conversation over drinks. If you’re building in this space, we’d love to see you there.

October 7 · 5–7:30pm PDT · San Francisco

Request to join: luma.com/claude-ai-for-…
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One of my favorite things about hackathons is seeing what happens when you give people new tools and let them just build.

We spent three days in London with @OpenAI, @NVIDIAHealth, @WilbeLABS, and 75 scientists and engineers exploring ChatGPT, Rosalind Workbench, NVIDIA BioNeMo, and agentic AI.

The projects went in completely different directions—from systems to make agentic workflows reproducible, to screening herbicide-resistant plant proteins, to identifying chimeric RNAs as potential drug targets.

One of the biggest takeaways for me was seeing the boundary between scientific and engineering work start to blur. Scientists can use agents to turn ideas into working code much more directly. Engineers can use them to get closer to the domain knowledge behind the workflows they're building.

Both skillsets are critical for the future of discovery. Agents are helping bridge the gap to make it much easier for scientists and engineers to build together.

It's a pretty exciting glimpse of the future.
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It's been amazing working with @joyjiao12 and the OpenAI Life Sciences team to bring accelerated computing and frontier intelligence to advance life sciences research.

We've been working with GPT-Rosalind and the Rosalind Workbench to explore how developers will use these tools with @nvidia BioNeMo Agent Toolkit for genomic analysis, protein binder design, molecular optimization, and more.

I can echo @ChrisHayduk, it feels like living in the future.
Chris Hayduk Verified account @ChrisHayduk Aug 28
At OpenAI, it's felt like our researchers & engineers have been living in the future with Codex.

Today, we're bringing that same experience to life science researchers with the Rosalind Workbench.
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Very cool seeing Biomni by @KexinHuang5 and team published in Science! Congrats 🎉

Looking forward to seeing more updates from @phylo_bio as they continue to build out AI tools for scientists
Kexin Huang Verified account @KexinHuang5 Jul 9
Today, we're excited to share that Biomni is published in @ScienceMagazine.

Biomedical research is still fragmented, manual, and difficult to scale. In this work, we introduce Biomni - the first general-purpose biomedical AI agent with an integrated biology environment that can reason, plan, and execute end-to-end scientific workflows.

We show that, with the right environment and harness, AI can automate large-scale omics analyses, orchestrate laboratory robotics, optimize molecular properties, and even train new AI models for biology.

We also introduce a reinforcement learning recipe for continually improving biomedical AI agents, enabling open-source models to achieve frontier-level performance.

It's surreal to look back. We started the Biomni project in early 2024, when agentic AI was still nascent. It is exciting to see tens of thousands of biologists collaborating with agents every day to accelerate science.

Try Biomni: biomni.phylo.bio
Read more: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This work is not possible without this truly inter-disciplinary team: @serena2z @hcwww_ @YuanhaoQ Minta Lu, Ryan Li, @yusufroohani Lin Qiu @shiyi_c98 Gavin Junze Di @rickwierenga @kavi_deniz Sherry @TianweiShe Shruti Jennefer Xin Zhou @MWheelerMD Jon Bernstein @MengdiWang10 @PengHeAtlas @zhou_jingtian @SnyderShot @lecong Aviv Regev @jure

@StanfordAILab @genentech @phylo_bio @arcinstitute @UW @berkeley_ai @RetroBio_ @tamarindbio @Princeton @UCSF
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