- FutureHouse's goal has been to automate scientific discovery. Now we used our agents to make a genuine discovery – a potential new treatment for one kind of blindness (dAMD). We had multiple cycles of hypotheses, experiments, and data analysis – including identify the mechanism.May 20, 2025 15:35
- The figures, hypothesis, original and follow-up experiments were all generated from our agents. Interestingly, only the lab-work and the paper writing were not automated (which is the opposite of what I would have predicted 2 years ago).
- The code for this is really minimal - similar to Google Co-Scientist we used multiple agents (from our platform in this case) and tournament-style rankings to select ideas. We're open sourcing it next week, along with all the trajectories.
- Although the discovery here is exciting, we are not claiming that we have cured dry AMD. Fully validating this hypothesis as a treatment for dry AMD will take human trials, which will take much longer. Blog: www.futurehouse.org/research-ann... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13400
