OpenAI Says GPT-5 Pro Helped Crack a 3-Year T-Cell Puzzle in Immunology

On June 23, OpenAI published a blog post detailing how immunologist Derya Unutmaz used GPT-5 Pro to solve a three-year-old mystery about T-cell differentiation. A professor at The Jackson Laboratory affiliated with UConn, Unutmaz reanalyzed experimental data from 2022 that he had shelved because it defied explanation, then used insights from the AI to crack the puzzle (details).