EurekAlert! In the Spotlight - Artificial Intelligence

This month, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that continues to capture attention everywhere. Here, you’ll find the latest research news, insights, and discoveries shaping how AI is being developed and used across the world.

Brown University researchers launch AI legislation tracking and analysis portal

Brown University

As a tool for researchers, lawmakers, journalists and the public, the CNTR AISLE Portal provides analysis of state- and federal-level AI bills pending across the U.S.

4-Mar-2026

Insilico and TaiGen achieve milestone in collaboration: Out-licensed CKD anemia candidate ISM4808 completes first human enrollment and dosing in Phase I clinical trial

InSilico Medicine
Business Announcement

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., — Insilico Medicine (Insilico Medicine, HKEX: 03696), a clinical-stage biotechnology company powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), announced that ISM4808, an AI-driven PHD inhibitor for chronic kidney disease (CKD)-related anemia previously out-licensed to TaiGen Biotechnology (TaiGen*-KY, 4157), has achieved its first milestone. Recently, TaiGen has successfully completed the enrollment and dosing of the first subject in the Phase I clinical trial.

4-Mar-2026

Global trauma study highlights shared learning as interest in whole blood resurges

University of Cambridge
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new international study published in The Lancet eClinicalMedicine has mapped global blood transfusion practices for life-threatening abdominal injuries, highlighting significant variation in care worldwide and opportunities for health systems to learn from one another.

Journal: EClinicalMedicine

4-Mar-2026

Machine-learning immune-system analysis study may hold clues to personalized medicine

York University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by York University found that not only could machine-learning models accurately pinpoint differences in healthy controls and those living with HIV, but also found outliers in both groups that provide fascinating glimpses into the complex nature of the immune system and what personalized medicine could look like in the future, accounting for variables such as age, comorbidities and genetics.

Journal: Patterns

4-Mar-2026

Resuscitation science, training and technology leaders launch new self-guided resuscitation learning model nationwide

American Heart Association
Business Announcement

The American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on changing the future of health for all, and Laerdal Medical, one of the world leaders in medical simulation, health care education and resuscitation training, today announced the nationwide launch of Self-Guided Learning™.

4-Mar-2026

Mayo Clinic researchers discover hidden brain map that may improve epilepsy care

Mayo Clinic
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a hidden "movement map" deep within the brain — a discovery that could help surgeons reduce side effects from epilepsy procedures and guide future treatments for speech and movement disorders.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

4-Mar-2026

AI-based liquid biopsy may detect liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and chronic disease signals

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based liquid biopsy test using genome-wide cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragmentation patterns and repeat landscapes can detect early liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, and may also reveal signals of broader chronic disease burden.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine
Funder: Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation, SU2C in-Time Lung Cancer Interception Dream Team Grant, Stand Up to Cancer-Dutch Cancer Society International Translational Cancer Research Dream Team Grant, Gray Foundation, Honorable Tina Brozman Foundation, Commonwealth Foundation, Mark Foundation For Cancer Research, Danaher Foundation, ARCS Metro Washington Chapter, Family of Dan Y. Zhang AACR Scholar in Training Award, Cole Foundation and National Institutes of Health grants, Cole Foundation and National Institutes of Health grants, Cole Foundation and National Institutes of Health grants, Cole Foundation and National Institutes of Health grants, Cole Foundation and National Institutes of Health grants, Cole Foundation and National Institutes of Health grants, Cole Foundation and National Institutes of Health grants, Cole Foundation and National Institutes of Health grants

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Latest News Releases

Brown University researchers launch AI legislation tracking and analysis portal

Insilico and TaiGen achieve milestone in collaboration: Out-licensed CKD anemia candidate ISM4808 completes first human enrollment and dosing in Phase I clinical trial

Global trauma study highlights shared learning as interest in whole blood resurges

Machine-learning immune-system analysis study may hold clues to personalized medicine

Resuscitation science, training and technology leaders launch new self-guided resuscitation learning model nationwide

Mayo Clinic researchers discover hidden brain map that may improve epilepsy care

AI-based liquid biopsy may detect liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and chronic disease signals