Google publishes roundup of its AI health research and tools
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Google says its teams have published 90 peer-reviewed papers on understanding and addressing diseases over the last five years, with more than 90,000 citations, and that Google.org has given over $60 million in 2026 to organizations applying advanced models to disease understanding and treatment.
In one example, Google says its AlphaFold model helped researchers at the Institute for Global Health in Barcelona screen 30,000 compounds for Chagas disease activity and identify two FDA-approved drugs for possible repurposing. Google also cites a Nature Cancer study of 125,000 women in which a mammography screening system caught 25% of interval cancers that had been missed historically, and could reduce specialist reading workloads by up to 40%.
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AIGoogle says its AlphaFold model helped researchers at the Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, screen 30,000 compounds for Chagas disease activity and identify two FDA-approved drugs for possible repurposing. In a Nature Cancer study across 125,000 women, a mammography screening system caught 25% of historically missed interval cancers and could reduce specialist reading workloads by up to 40%.
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