{
  "id": 7867794,
  "title": "UAE hails AI cell model capable of simulating responses to drugs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/uae-hails-ai-cell-model-capable-of-simulating-responses-to-drugs-7867794",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-16T20:18:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The National Business",
    "slug": "the-national-business",
    "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/16/genbio-ai-cell-simulator-drugs/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The UAE's embassy in Washington recently highlighted the creation of an artificial intelligence model capable of simulating human cell responses to drugs. This development, spearheaded by California-based GenBio AI and researchers from Abu Dhabi's Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Harvard, and Stanford, has garnered praise.\n\nGenBio AI, co-founded by Eric Xing, president of MBZUAI, and Nobel Laureate David Baker, unveiled the system, dubbed AIDO Cell, in late August. AIDO Cell functions by simulating how a cell evolves in response to various experiments and displaying these changes across multiple experimental measurements, effectively creating a virtual cell.\n\nThe system is based on a \"world model,\" a unique feature that allows predictions on a unified world state. This enables users to intervene mid-prediction and observe how real-world observations would change as a result of those interventions.\n\nGenBio AI's website invites interested parties to join an early access waiting list for AIDO Cell. The company is also constructing a comprehensive virtual cell bank, enabling researchers to download custom cells and conduct open-ended experiments.\n\nGenBio AI, with offices in Abu Dhabi, Paris, and elsewhere, is actively seeking partnerships to expedite the creation of this cell bank. The AI biotechnology company asserts that while they are not yet solving cell biology, they have developed a system that behaves like a cell, ingesting diverse multimodal data into a single shared world model. This model improves as it encounters new biological contexts.\n\nGenBio AI's CEO, Eric Xing, emphasized that AIDO Cell represents a significant step forward in enhancing our understanding of life. He stated, \"To truly understand life, we must model and simulate it across every scale.\" GenBio AI believes their world model is the path towards a future where biology becomes computable, predictable, and ultimately programmable.",
  "summary": "The UAE's embassy in Washington on Wednesday highlighted the development of an artificial intelligence model that can simulate a human cell and its response to drugs. The embassy praised the work of California-based GenBio AI, along with researchers from Abu Dhabi's Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Harvard and Stanhope. GenBio AI, co-founded by Eric Xing, president of the…",
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      {
        "outlet": "The National UAE",
        "title": "UAE hails AI cell model capable of simulating responses to drugs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/uae-hails-ai-cell-model-capable-of-simulating-responses-to-drugs",
        "published": "2026-09-16T20:18:58.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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