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PubMed MCP Connector for Claude

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Search 37M+ biomedical research articles from the world's largest medical literature database — with full abstracts, authors, MeSH terms, and citation tracking.

3 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Connect your AI agent to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database — the undisputed gold standard for biomedical and life sciences literature worldwide.

What you can do

  • Literature Search — Find research articles by keyword, disease name, gene symbol, drug, or any biomedical topic across 37M+ indexed articles using powerful boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Full Article Details — Retrieve comprehensive metadata including complete abstracts, all contributing authors, publishing journal, DOI, publication types, and MeSH descriptors for any article by PMID
  • Citation Tracking — Discover which subsequent papers cite a specific article to trace the impact chain and follow the evolution of a research topic over time

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Start searching PubMed from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client — no API key required

Who is this for?

  • Healthcare Professionals — quickly locate clinical evidence, systematic reviews, and treatment guidelines without navigating the PubMed web interface
  • Biomedical Researchers — run targeted literature searches and citation analyses directly from their AI coding assistant
  • Science Writers & Journalists — find primary sources and peer-reviewed evidence for accurate scientific reporting
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3 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_pubmed_article

Get full details of a PubMed article by its PMID

get_pubmed_citations

Useful for tracing the impact of a paper and finding follow-up research. Find articles that cite a specific PubMed paper

search_pubmed

Returns titles, authors, journals, abstracts, DOIs, and MeSH terms. Supports boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT. Search PubMed for biomedical and life sciences research articles

See how to talk to your AI agent using PubMed.

Find recent research on CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease.

Found 10 recent articles on CRISPR and sickle cell disease. Highlights include: 'CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing for Sickle Cell Disease and β-Thalassemia' (NEJM, 2023) — a landmark clinical trial showing 97% of patients free of vaso-occlusive crises after exa-cel infusion. PMID: 38040890. Full abstract and MeSH terms retrieved.

Get complete details for PubMed article PMID 33782455.

Retrieved full data for PMID 33782455: 'SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants of interest' by Harvey et al. Published in Nature Reviews Microbiology (2021). The abstract details the classification framework for emerging variants including Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. DOI: 10.1038/s41579-021-00573-0. MeSH Terms: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Mutation, Spike Glycoprotein.

Which papers cite the original CRISPR-Cas9 paper? Show me the top citing articles.

Found 10 citing articles for the landmark CRISPR paper. Top citations include applications in gene therapy, agricultural biotechnology, diagnostic systems (SHERLOCK/DETECTR), and base editing. Authors span institutions from MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and the Broad Institute. Each result includes PMID, DOI, and full abstract.

No. PubMed E-utilities are freely accessible to everyone without registration. An optional API key (available at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) increases your rate limit from 3 to 10 requests per second, but is not required for standard usage.

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