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Aug 13, 2026

Researchers propose AI-driven 'digital organism' to simulate drug effects across biological scales

A new Nature Medicine paper describes a system of integrated multiscale AI foundation models that could simulate how potential drugs or genetic changes move through molecules, cells, and eventually people. The digital organism aims to accelerate biological and medical research by modeling complex biological processes in silico.

Aug 13, 2026·3 sources
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  • ▪A paper published in Nature Medicine on August 13, 2026, proposed an AI-driven "digital organism" to simulate how drugs or genetic changes affect molecules, cells, and humans.
  • ▪GenBio AI, co-founded by chief scientist Eric Xing, plans to release what it describes as the world's first implementation of a virtual cell.
  • ▪The virtual cell system proposed by researcher Eric Xing and co-authors aims to integrate sequence, structure, imaging, and interaction data to predict the dynamic effects of biological interventions.

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