Next YC Paper Club Tackles AI for Bio, With Authors of AlphaFold-Era Papers
david_van_dijk · x · 2026-10-23
Y Combinator's next Paper Club focuses on AI for Bio, inviting authors of key works to discuss. The quoted post notes AlphaFold, Evo2, ESM, Hippocratic and OpenEvidence have transformed drug development and diagnosis; AI now touches nearly every drug coming to market, 81% of US physicians use AI in clinical workflows, and GitLab founder Sid Sijbrandij generated 25TB of single-cell sequencing data to achieve measurable remission for recurrent osteosarcoma.
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