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# Publications on virtual cell models reached 24 in 2025, up from 16 in 2024
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/virtual-cell-model-publications/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:36:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:05:24.000Z
- Description: Publications on virtual cell models, AI systems meant to predict how cells respond to drugs and genetic changes, rose to 24 in 2025 from 16 in 2024. The field is still small.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI in Healthcare, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-healthcare

24

▲ 50% vs 2024

publications on virtual cell models in 2025

20182025

## What the chart shows

Virtual cell models aim to predict how cells respond to drugs or genetic changes without a laboratory experiment. RAISE Health counted 24 publications on them in 2025, up from 16 in 2024 and four times the 6 of 2018.

The numbers are small and uneven: 2021 (14) had more than 2022 (10). Notable 2025 releases named by the AI Index include Evo 2 from the Arc Institute, STATE and DeepMind’s AlphaGenome, and it notes that these systems still need experimental validation.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value |
| ------- | ----- |
| 2025    | 24    |
| 2024    | 16    |
| 2023    | 14    |
| 2021    | 14    |
| 2018    | 6     |

## How to read it

- PubMed publications identified by RAISE Health as being about virtual cell models.
- With so few papers a year, single-year changes say little.

**Source:** [RAISE Health](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#raise-health), 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 6.1.11: *Number of publications on virtual cell models, 2018–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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