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title: "Prompt Engineering for Biology, Health Sciences & Pre-Health"
description: "How LLMs are being used across biomedical research and clinical practice — and what you could build with them in this course."
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# Prompt Engineering for Biology, Health Sciences & Pre-Health

LLMs are showing up across biology and medicine — from protein design and literature synthesis to patient-facing triage, documentation, and clinical decision support. Med schools, labs, and health systems increasingly value students who can work with these tools intelligently.

## Where this is showing up in Biology & Health Sciences

- DeepMind's [AlphaFold 3](https://deepmind.google/technologies/alphafold/) and EvolutionaryScale's [ESM3](https://www.evolutionaryscale.ai/blog/esm3-release) have turned protein structure and sequence design into AI-driven workflows used across biology and drug discovery.
- [Elicit](https://elicit.com), [Consensus](https://consensus.app), and [Semantic Scholar's](https://www.semanticscholar.org) AI features are becoming standard tools for biomedical literature review in labs and med-school courses.
- Clinical tools like [OpenEvidence](https://www.openevidence.com), [Glass Health](https://glass.health), and [Epic's in-chart GPT assistant](https://www.epic.com/epic/post/epic-expands-generative-ai-features) (rolling out across major health systems) are embedding LLMs into physician workflows.
- The [FDA's evolving guidance on AI/ML medical devices](https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/software-medical-device-samd/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-software-medical-device) and [NEJM AI](https://ai.nejm.org) journal are actively shaping how LLMs get deployed in clinical settings.

## Projects you could build in this course

- A literature-review agent for a specific research area or disease
- A RAG assistant over clinical guidelines (e.g., USPSTF, CDC, AAP)
- A tool that extracts structured data from case reports or lab notebooks

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