An AI agent injected drugs into a live mouse’s brain
PLUS: Crematoria are being used to heat homes and swimming pools. View in browser | Your preferences SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL ACCESS They did surgery on a grape is a 2018 meme that has lived rent-free in my head for eight years. (Don’t ask why, because I don’t have an answer.) It’s being evicted, though, by something that actually happened: AI did surgery on a mouse . AI agents chose and injected a gene therapy into a live mouse’s brain is a sentence that would’ve bewildered 2018 me. But it’s 2026, and researchers are using agents to do all sorts of things in the physical world, from off-the-shelf models ma...
