Happy to share our new Circulation article discussing agentic and generative AI for drug discovery 💊 www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.... Great job by Jake Silberg, Peter Eckmann, Joseph Boen! Also thanks to Bradley Maron for helpful guidance.
James Zou
@jameszou.bsky.social
@Stanford Professor. AI for science and medicine.
Bio databases/APIs weren't designed for AI agents 🧬 So we expanded #Paperclip to transform common molecular databases—UniProt, PDB, ChEMBL—into a unified agent-native virtual filesystem. Now you can do deep research across 10^6 molecules much more accurately and 10x faster! gxl.ai/blog/adding-...
6/2026 Issue ➡️ link.springer.com/journal/4432... plasmid-free protein engineering, #DMS analysis, microbial surface functionalization, glioma cell interactions, viral mimic evolution Cover: generative AI for antibiotic synthesis design by Jonathan Stokes and @jameszou.bsky.social labs
Thank you @molsystbiol.org for highlighting SyntheMol-RL on the June cover!
6/2026 Issue ➡️ link.springer.com/journal/4432... plasmid-free protein engineering, #DMS analysis, microbial surface functionalization, glioma cell interactions, viral mimic evolution Cover: generative AI for antibiotic synthesis design by Jonathan Stokes and @jameszou.bsky.social labs
We added >220K FDA regulatory and >1M clinical trial docs to #paperclip. All natively indexed for agents and free. Now agents can easily reason over clinical studies w/o web search! E.g: find all trials that were approved despite missing endpoint gxl.ai/blog/adding-...
Paperclip Expands With 220K+ FDA Regulatory and 1M+ Clinical Trial Documents - James Zou @jameszou.bsky.social oncodaily.com/voices/james... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine
James Zou: Paperclip Expands With 220K+ FDA Regulatory and 1M+ Clinical Trial Documents - OncoDaily
James Zou: Paperclip Expands With 220K+ FDA Regulatory and 1M+ Clinical Trial Documents / cancer, James Zou, OncoDaily, Oncology, Paperclip
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In this review, Wu et al., including @jameszou.bsky.social, give an overview of recent advances in cellular models, microphysiological systems, computational approaches, & other #NAMs driving the human-centric shift in drug development & biomedical research. 🧪
#paperclip now includes full papers from all of arXiv, PubMed Central and 150 million abstracts! 🖇️ Give your LLM all that knowledge in one line—all natively indexed for agents. 100x faster than web search and free. Install: curl -fsSL paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash Blog: gxl.ai/blog/adding-...
Excited to share our new papers at #ICLR2026 on (multi-)agents, efficient reasoning, long context, better tokenizers and scientific applications 🚀 My awesome students and collaborators will be presenting them at the main conference this week; check it out! 👇
been using the paperclip.gxl.ai by @jameszou.bsky.social and im just blown away but how much better it makes cc as a research assistant. i feel like they solved something smoothly. an elegant example of 'you need to translate problems to something that a CLI solves'. researchers - try it
Paperclip
Paperclip — search, read, and analyze 8M+ biomedical papers from the command line.
paperclip.gxl.ai
Did you know AI can predict disease from just one night’s sleep? According to @jameszou.bsky.social , AI models can analyse sleep data to predict over 100 different diseases. Explore the interview: t.co/qA1fUODuGC t.co/OhrbWuigDW
In CellVoyager from @jameszou.bsky.social and teams AI agents pore over published papers. Seems intriguing to naive me that it can "uncover missing insights by autonomously analyzing biological data at scale. " 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CellVoyager: AI CompBio agent generates new insights by autonomously analyzing biological data - Nature Methods
CellVoyager is an artificial intelligence agent capable of exploring new biological hypotheses by autonomously analyzing single-cell RNA sequencing datasets and accounting for background information a...
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The data from sleep is incredibly rich, a window into health and risk of many diseases, decoded by AI. Our new essay today @jameszou.bsky.social @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Decoding the language of sleep with artificial intelligence
Sleep is one of medicine's underused data streams. Clinically, disturbed sleep has often been treated as a symptom of a disorder, but sleep is also a physiological state in which brain, cardiac, respi...
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As speech models are being deployed in real-world taxi and emergency service settings, the failure to accurately transcribe named entities can cause delays and errors in critical settings.
We have posted a Research Assistant (LSRP1) position to work on aging and 'rejuvenation' using mouse models!! 🐭 careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc... Apply and join our awesome lab!! (please share) 😎
What do LLMs think about on their own, when we let them think freely? We generated 250K “daydream” samples across models 🧠 GPT → coding Qwen → multiple-choice math exams Llama → literature DeepSeek → math, religion, psychology
#Squidiff is highlighted on the cover of Nature Methods! Read about our diffusion model for single cells www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great job Siyu He and all the wonderful collaborators!
🏆 Thank you @cp-patterns.bsky.social for selecting our work on LLM-assisted writing across society as a Best Paper of 2025! info.cell.com/collection-r...
Patterns | Cell Press
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Nice Stanford article discussing our SleepFM AI: predicting diseases while you sleep news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
AI model predicts disease risk while you sleep
The first artificial intelligence model of its kind can predict more than 100 health conditions from one night’s sleep.
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The first sleep AI foundation model for predicting diseases was published today @naturemedicine.bsky.social by @jameszou.bsky.social and colleagues nature.com/articles/s41... With Notebook LM, I made this infographic that tells the rich story pretty well
Thanks to Nature Methods for highlighting AI agents for biology (and the Virtual Lab) as a 2025 Method to Watch! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Artificial intelligence agents for biology - Nature Methods
Artificial intelligence agents may have a transformative effect on how biological research is performed.
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Exploring the use of AI authors and reviewers at Agents4Science - @jameszou.bsky.social go.nature.com/4j1O7a3
Exploring the use of AI authors and reviewers at Agents4Science - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Exploring the use of AI authors and reviewers at Agents4Science
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📣📣📣 Our second keynote speaker works on developing cutting-edge AI for biomedical applications. We're pleased to have James Zou (@jameszou.bsky.social) talk about "AI agents to accelerate scientific discoveries." To know more about the talk, check out: 2025.jcdl.org/keynotes/
New paper out in @natmethods.nature.com from @elhamazizi.bsky.social, Kam Leong & @jameszou.bsky.social! The team developed Squidiff, a diffusion #AI model to predict cellular responses to environmental cues and accelerate #PrecisionMedicine. Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
Large language models (LLMs) may not reliably acknowledge a user’s incorrect beliefs, according to a paper in Nature Machine Intelligence. The findings highlight the need for careful use of LLM outputs in high-stakes decisions. go.nature.com/48VRpIQ 🧪
It’s here! #Agents4Science recording is now on YouTube! 🏆 3 Best Paper talks ⚡️ 11 Spotlights 🧠 Panel on the future of AI agent-driven science 📚 Lessons + surprises from this first-of-its kind conf Full analysis of submissions + reviews coming soon! youtube.com/watch?v=7pXq...
Next week @jameszou.bsky.social & colleagues will host a conference where all the papers are written by AI agents & reviewed by them too. What do you reckon? A good chance to put AIs through their paces? Or a way to divert AI slop from elsewhere? 🧪🤖 My story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.
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As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT. Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind. arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
"We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM. —When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up. —When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist. —When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned." → Moloch's Bargain @jameszou.bsky.social #AI
#AI wrote nearly a quarter of corporate press releases in 2024 and the number is likely to keep rising. spkl.io/63324ATfBo Weixin Liang, @jameszou.bsky.social & colleagues @cp-patterns.bsky.social