Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation have developed a device called the Eye-in-a-Care-Box (ECaBox) that uses perfusion to keep donor eyes viable outside the body. By delivering oxygen-rich fluid through the eye's artery, the device significantly slows degeneration compared to untreated eyes. Tests on pig eyes showed that perfused eyes regained the ability to respond to light after about 15 minutes, with some maintaining that ability for over 10 hours. Human donor eyes treated in the device also showed better retinal preservation. The team hopes the ECaBox could eventually enable viable whole-eye transplants and serve as a research platform that reduces animal experimentation. The work is currently available as an unreviewed preprint.
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A University of Utah-led team developed a quantum mechanics-inspired AI framework for extracting reliable biomedical signals from small, noisy, high-dimensional multiomic datasets. The method uses spectral decompositions and concepts analogous to quantum superposition and entanglement to find linked patterns across tumor DNA, blood DNA, and tumor RNA simultaneously. Applied to neuroblastoma data from 101 patients, it identified two new survival predictors that outperformed the established MYCN amplification biomarker across multiple data types and validated in a cohort of 398 patients. The approach does not run on quantum hardware — the 'quantum' refers to the mathematical structure. Limitations include reliance on existing datasets, no prospective clinical trial, and the need for broader independent validation before clinical use.

AWS HealthOmics now supports ephemeral storage for private workflow tasks, providing dedicated scratch space mounted at /tmp. Each task gets 16 GiB by default at no extra cost, configurable up to 3,072 GiB per task via WDL, Nextflow, or CWL directives or the StartRun API. This benefits I/O-heavy bioinformatics workloads like genomic sequence alignment, BAM sorting, and variant calling by isolating scratch I/O from shared run storage. All ephemeral volumes are encrypted and automatically deleted on task termination. The feature is available across all regions where HealthOmics operates.
Stripe, Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, and other backers are funding Intercept, a new $500-million nonprofit aimed at preventing respiratory infections including the common cold and flu. The organization will fund vaccines, broad-spectrum antiviral approaches, and large-scale air-cleaning technologies. Inspired by COVID-19 vaccine development, Intercept's scientific advisers believe modern tools like RNA drugs, computational protein design, and engineered virus-trapping proteins make it technically feasible to counter many viruses simultaneously. The initiative mirrors Stripe's earlier Frontier carbon removal program, targeting problems that are technically solvable but lack commercial incentives.
NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit enables building AI scientists for life science research by wrapping biomolecular AI models (protein folding, molecular docking, molecular generation, genomics) as agent-callable tools called BioNeMo Skills. These skills expose models like OpenFold3, Boltz-2, DiffDock, GenMol, and others via NIM endpoints or local deployments, with MCP server wrappers for open models. The toolkit provides structured tool descriptions including purpose, inputs, parameters, expected artifacts, and failure modes so agents can reliably select and use the right model. Benchmarks using Codex CLI with GPT-5.5 show a 2x improvement in passing assertions per token consumed when agents use BioNeMo Skills versus without. Teams can start with hosted NIM endpoints and move to local deployment for latency-sensitive or iterative workloads.