Google DeepMind released the AlphaGenome Atlas, precomputed predictions for how all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome might affect gene activity, free for researchers studying genetic disease to search rather than compute themselves.
Source: deepmind.google →AI-GUIDE, built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory with Massachusetts General Hospital, pairs a portable ultrasound with AI guidance so someone with minimal training can catheterize a blood vessel at the scene of an injury. It just won the Federal Laboratory Consortium's 2026 tech-transfer award and holds FDA Breakthrough Device status.
Source: news.mit.edu →Google Research, HHMI Janelia, and collaborators at Cambridge published a complete wiring diagram of the male fruit fly's brain and nerve cord, 166,000 neurons and 125 million synapses, the largest connectome mapped to date and a two-decade project now open for any neuroscientist to explore.
Source: research.google →