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What AI does
AI researches sources, prepares drafts and checks claims against the material it can access. Educational evidence guides may be published after an AI source check; their transparency note explicitly says when no human review has occurred. An AI check is not independent verification. Clinical research analyses remain drafts until their source check and a real, identified clinical review are completed.
We do not treat a model's confidence score as a measure of scientific certainty. Missing data stays missing, and generated wording must not invent a patient, quotation, study or result.
What the labels mean
- Research brief
- A focused reading of a named publication, with its limitations and source links.
- Explainer
- An educational guide to reading evidence. Worked examples are labelled as illustrative.
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- A private preview item awaiting editorial checks, excluded from public research feeds and sitemaps.
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A brief's publication date is separate from the date of the study it discusses. Older research is not presented as a newly released study. Substantive updates are recorded in the editorial history. Corrections can be requested through our contact page.
Our historical archive
The original press release archive remains available at its existing addresses. It contains institutional announcements and earlier material prepared under previous publishing processes. The new review workflow applies to the research section; it is not a claim that every archive item has been re-reviewed.
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Funding and conflicts reported by a study should be considered when interpreting it. Sponsored material, if introduced, must be labelled. The site explains research and does not provide an individual diagnosis or treatment plan.
Images & credits
Our photographs, micrographs and medical images provide editorial context. Captions identify the specimen or object; an illustration does not show a study’s participants, data or results unless explicitly stated. An image does not imply endorsement by its creator or institution.
Images are sourced from Unsplash and Wikimedia Commons. Each item has its own source and rights statement below. Commons is a repository; the named creators retain the applicable credit. Images are resized, converted to WebP and may be cropped by the page layout. Derivatives retain the source licence. Our explanatory diagrams are original reading aids and are labelled separately from measured results.
- Gloved hands using a pipette in a laboratory
CDC / Unsplash · Unsplash LicenseMolecular testing in a CDC laboratory. Illustrative photograph, not a photograph of the study described.
- Gloved hands preparing laboratory samples
Daniel Sone / National Cancer Institute · Unsplash LicenseLaboratory sample preparation. Illustrative photograph, not a photograph of the study described.
- A medical monitor displaying vital signs
Jair Lázaro / Unsplash · Unsplash LicenseMedical monitoring equipment. Illustrative photograph, not data from the study described.
- Blood sample tubes in a laboratory rack
Daniel Sone / National Cancer Institute · Unsplash LicenseBlood sample tubes at the NIH Clinical Center. Illustrative photograph.
- A researcher examining a slide through a microscope
National Cancer Institute / Unsplash · Unsplash LicenseA researcher at the Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory. Illustrative photograph, not a participant in the study described.
- A pathologist looking through a microscope in blue and magenta light
National Cancer Institute / Unsplash · Unsplash LicenseA pathologist examining a histological slide. Illustrative photograph, not a participant in the study described.
- Green-stained filaments and blue nuclei in human-derived cells
ZEISS Microscopy · CC BY 2.0Fluorescence microscopy of human-derived SK8/18-2 cells. A cell-level illustration, not the dataset or images from the studies discussed.
- Microscope image of a human primary ovarian follicle
Jpogi · Public domainHuman primary ovarian follicle, shown for anatomical context. The article discusses a mouse experiment; this image is not from that experiment.
- Pink-stained liver tissue seen under a microscope
Mikael Häggström · CC0Liver histology from a gallbladder resection, stained with haematoxylin and eosin. Illustrative tissue image, not the liver-injury study samples.
- Colour-enhanced electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 particles
NIAID · CC BY 2.0SARS-CoV-2 particles imaged and colour-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility. Illustrates the virus, not protein aggregation or the experiments discussed.
- Scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli bacteria
CDC / Evangeline Sowers and Janice Carr · Public domainEscherichia coli seen by scanning electron microscopy. Illustrates bacteria; it does not resolve the LPS transport machinery studied in the paper.
- Transmission electron micrograph of T2 bacteriophages
SnaxMikn · CC BY-SA 4.0T2 bacteriophages seen by transmission electron microscopy; the source image includes a 100 nm scale bar. Illustrative, not an image from the AI matching study.
- A graphics processor with memory chips on its package
C. Spille / pcgameshardware.de · CC BY-SA 4.0An AMD Fiji GPU package, photographed for computing context. This is not the hardware configuration of the study discussed, and no product endorsement is implied.
- Exposed processor and circuitry on a graphics card
Nick Stathas · CC BY-SA 4.0A Radeon R9 270X graphics card with the GPU exposed. Illustrative computing hardware, not a photograph of the model or its study environment.
- Microscope cross section of adipose tissue
Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library · CC0Adipose tissue in cross section at 400× magnification. Illustrative histology, not an image from the DUSP4 experiments.
- A coronal T2-weighted MRI image of a human brain
511KeV · CC BY-SA 4.0A coronal T2-weighted brain MRI slice. Anatomical context only: an MRI image is not a single-cell atlas or a result from the studies discussed.
- Juvenile zebrafish with green fluorescence
JTAVANTI · CC BY-SA 4.0A juvenile zebrafish shown using an overlay of GFP fluorescence and a conventional image. Illustrative, not a WHOLISTIC study image.
- A gloved hand positions a culture dish beneath a microscope
Linda Bartlett / National Cancer Institute · Public domainLaboratory tissue culture beneath a microscope. Illustrative photograph; it does not depict the experimental material or results of the study described.
- Purple-coloured scanning electron micrograph of a lymphocyte
Unknown original photographer; colour by DO11.10 · Public domainScanning electron micrograph of a lymphocyte, with colour added by DO11.10. Illustrates an immune cell, not the vaccine experiments or their measured response.
- Hands holding an agarose gel slab after electrophoresis
School of Natural Resources, Ann Arbor · CC BY 2.0An agarose gel slab held after an electrophoresis run. Illustrates a nucleic-acid laboratory technique; it is not a result image from the RNA studies discussed.
- Microscope image of small-intestinal mucosa and villi
Ed Uthman · CC BY 2.0Histology of normal small-intestinal mucosa. Anatomical context only, not a microbiome dataset, migration map or Crohn’s disease study sample.
- Transparent hydrogel beads held in a hand
Azizbekpm · CC BY-SA 4.0Hydrogel beads shown as a material illustration. They are not the mucus-mimetic formulation tested in the study discussed.
- Fluorescence microscopy of a cell and mitochondria
NICHD · Public domainFluorescence microscopy of a cell and mitochondria. Illustrative cellular context, not a direct measurement of polarity or molecular neighbourhoods in the papers discussed.
- Red perineuronal nets and blue nuclei in mouse brain tissue
Nikita Arnst, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anastasiya Melnikova · CC BY-SA 4.0Mouse somatosensory cortex imaged by confocal microscopy: perineuronal nets in red and DAPI-labelled nuclei in blue. Illustrative, not a lipid measurement or an image from the atlas discussed.
- Macro photograph of a female Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly
Rolf Dietrich Brecher · CC BY 2.0A female Drosophila melanogaster, photographed at close range. Illustrates the model organism, not a fly from the lifespan experiment.
- An MRI scanner in an empty scanning room
Walter Davies · CC BY-SA 4.0An MRI scanner shown for research-imaging context. This photograph does not show study participants or indicate which equipment a study used.
- Medical books on shelves in Hamamatsu Municipal Hamakita Library
Asturio Cantabrio · CC BY-SA 4.0Medical books at Hamamatsu Municipal Hamakita Library, Japan. Illustrative reading context, not a source or endorsement of our guides.
- An open notebook and pen beside a coffee cup
Freddy Castro / readysetfreddy · CC0A notebook and pen on a café table. Illustrative research-reading context; no research data are shown.
- A laptop and calculator on a desk
Anonymous / unknown author · CC0A laptop and calculator on a desk. Illustrates working with evidence and numbers, not a dataset from the article.
- Hands writing in a notebook next to a laptop
Nenad Stojković / Shixart1985 · CC BY 2.0A person taking notes beside a laptop. Illustrative reading context, not a participant or research questionnaire from the studies discussed.
- Rows of server racks in a data centre
Carl Lender · CC BY 2.0Server racks in a data centre. Illustrative computing infrastructure, not the model deployment or data storage used by the studies discussed.
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