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  1. ResearchReach 35

    AI takes on deadly cobra venom

    David Baker’s lab just used deep learning to design brand-new proteins that neutralize lethal snake venom. In mouse tests published in Nature, the computationally generated molecules yielded up to a 100% survival rate against deadly cobra neurotoxins. Traditional antivenoms rely on costly animal plasma, but these compact AI proteins can be brewed cheaply in microbes. Why it matters: While it can't neutralize full venom cocktails yet, it paves the way for accessible, life-saving antidotes in developing nations.

  2. ResearchReach 34

    Scientists built a "death calculator" AI trained on 6M people

    Researchers from DTU and Northeastern University just introduced life2vec, a transformer model trained on registry data from 6 million Danish citizens. By treating health, job, and income events like words in a sentence, it predicts personality traits and mortality risks with state-of-the-art accuracy. Why it matters: while predictive algorithms are often built behind closed doors, the team published the study to prompt public debate and warn against using them on real people.