Molecular Genetics News and Resources for Healthcare

Deep learning tool may advance precision medicine approaches

April 19, 2024 - Researchers from Clemson University have developed a deep learning tool to better understand how gene-regulatory network (GRN) interactions impact individual drug response, according to a study published recently in Nature Biotechnology. GRNs “map the complex interactions between genes, regulatory elements and proteins, holding the key to...

AI Tool Uses Epigenetic Factors to Predict Cancer Survival Outcomes

November 28, 2023 by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have created an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can successfully predict cancer survival outcomes by analyzing epigenetic...

AI Accurately Predicts On- and Off-Target Activity of CRISPR Tools

July 10, 2023 by Shania Kennedy

A new study published last week in Nature Biotechnology demonstrated that a deep learning (DL) tool can predict on- and off-target activity of RNA-targeting CRISPR tools, which may spur the development...

Johns Hopkins Machine Learning Tool Can Identify Tumor Cell Interactions

May 12, 2023 by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Convergence Institute and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a machine learning (ML) model capable of identifying molecular interactions among the...

Machine Learning Identifies Four Autism Subtypes

April 17, 2023 by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Well Cornell Medicine have identified four subtypes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) linked to distinct molecular pathways in the brain using machine learning (ML). The findings...

Researchers Develop ML Tool for Studying Characteristics of Single Cells

December 23, 2022 by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) developed new machine-learning (ML) software to analyze multiple characteristics...

Researchers Develop Algorithm, Assay to Assess Genome Structure

June 28, 2022 by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center have developed a new assay and corresponding algorithm that allows them to study the three-dimensional structure of the human...