# Google DeepMind — Applying technology to understand and treat disease

- Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
- Announced: 2026-10-12T17:30:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/health/ai-health-research/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/19969-applying-technology-to-understand-and-treat-disease
- Subject: Gemini
- Models affected: AlphaGenome Atlas, AlphaFold, DeepVariant, DeepConsensus, AlphaProtein Novo, DeepSomatic

Google DeepMind highlights its health research efforts, including AlphaGenome Atlas for genetic variant mapping, AlphaFold for drug discovery, and clinical tools like DeepVariant and DeepSomatic. The post notes 90 peer-reviewed papers and collaborations with institutions such as Stanford and the NHS. It also describes a mammography screening system that caught 25% of missed interval cancers and a flu forecasting model ranked #1 by the CDC.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/health/ai-health-research/:

> Over the last five years, Google teams have published 90 peer-reviewed research papers about understanding and addressing diseases, accumulating more than 90,000 citations.

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