The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has announced that it will establish a new precision medicine and genomics program within its Division of Intramural Research.
The new program will...
A simple predictive risk model helped forecast stroke risk in adult patients who have migraine with aura, according to research funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health...
Incorporating genetic and cellular analysis of tumors with how they appear in medical images could help improve brain cancer treatment, showing that cells inside and surrounding a tumor play a major...
Seventy-seven percent of Americans indicate positive feelings about human genetic research, with individuals expressing interest in what genetics can tell them about human history and heritage,...
Microsoft has launched a five-year, $40 million program called AI for Health, an initiative that will use artificial intelligence tools to address some of healthcare’s biggest challenges,...
New research from UT Southwestern has shown that deep learning technology could help providers quickly develop optimal treatment plans for cancer patients, decreasing the odds that the disease will...
Advancements in genomics and precision medicine have improved healthcare’s understanding of human disease, but stakeholders will need to address disparities and increase data sharing in order to...
A DNA sequencing technique analyzes tumors to accurately determine which melanoma patients are at risk for cancer recurrence and spread, according to a study published in Nature Cancer.
In most...
Researchers at the University of Houston have improved a microfluidic brain chip that allows multiple-simultaneous drug administration and massive parallel testing of drug response for patients with...
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is recommending that NIH dramatically revise its data sharing and management proposal to maximize the value of scientific data.
In October 2018, NIH...
An integrated genomic approach could help providers predict which patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer will respond to therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are...
The FDA’s MyStudies platform, a tool that aims to collect real-world data to improve clinical trials and advance medical research, is now available on Google Cloud Platform.
Launched in November...
Patients with heart failure who have higher levels of neuropeptide Y, a molecule released by the nervous system, are ten times more likely to die within one to three years than patients with lower...
MIT School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited have partnered to use artificial intelligence tools to benefit health and drug development.
The new MIT-Takeda Program will be...
Engineers at Duke University have developed a prototype microscope that adapts its lighting patterns while teaching itself the optimal settings needed to complete a given diagnostic task.
In the...
NIH researchers used artificial intelligence to evaluate stem cell-derived “patches” of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tissue for implanting into the eyes of patients with age-related...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed natural language processing (NLP) tools that can diagnose the early and subtle signs of language-associated cognitive impairments in patients with...
Machine learning methods could accurately identify cancerous esophagus tissue on microscopy images without the time-consuming manual data input that is required for current methods, according to a...
Researchers from the University of Michigan (U-M) College of Pharmacy and U-M Life Sciences Institute, as well as Michigan Medicine, are partnering with Atomwise to use artificial intelligence tools to...
A recent study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) discovered a link between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular risk, making clear the need to better understand the social determinants of...
