Image Credits: koto_feja / Getty Images Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research moonshot, ProGen could — if brought to market — help uncover medical treatments more cost effectively than traditional methods, the researchers …
(Left) a normal eardrum next to (right) an infected one – credit University of Pittsburgh, released. An AI-powered application developed by physician-scientists at the University of Pittsburgh in the US could decrease unnecessary antibiotic use in children by diagnosing ear infections via smartphone. The only thing worse than your child getting an ear infection is …
Artificial intelligence is being used more often in daily life including in healthcare. One app, Together by Renee, is being marketed as a way to make healthcare more manageable. One of the app’s main features uses AI to scan pill bottles. It then gathers the information to create a health profile about the user. The …
In a recent study published in npj Digital Medicine, researchers developed diagnostic reasoning prompts to investigate whether large language models (LLMs) could simulate diagnostic clinical reasons. Study: Diagnostic reasoning prompts reveal the potential for large language model interpretability in medicine. Image Credit: chayanuphol/Shutterstock.com LLMs, artificial intelligence-based systems trained using enormous amounts of text data, are …
Jonathan D. Epstein , David Robinson Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that two giant computing projects totaling more than $900 million in state and private-sector investment are coming to the Buffalo area, as advanced technology and especially artificial intelligence take on an increasingly prominent role in business and life in general. Tesla Inc., the electric …
Risa Wolf, MD Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) diabetic eye exams increase screening rates for youth with diabetes and close further care gaps among a racially and ethnically diverse population versus the standard of care, according to new research.1 Analyses of the ACCESS randomized controlled trial revealed these findings remained accurate despite …
Researchers at , which focuses on computer engineering and , built two machine learning algorithms that can detect pancreatic cancer at a higher threshold than current diagnostic standards. The two models together formed to create the “PRISM” neural network. It is designed to specifically detect pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the most prevalent form of pancreatic …
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Kamala Thiagarajan, Undark As far back as he can remember, Kali Chockalingam, now 53 and living in Echur, a village in South India, has loved snakes. He often got in trouble with his teachers for hiding them in his schoolbag. “As a young boy, I thought they looked like little dolls,” he said. Chockalingam hails …
Synex Medical, a Toronto-based biotech research firm backed by Sam Altman (the CEO of OpenAI), has developed a tool that can measure your blood glucose levels without a finger prick. It uses a combination of low-field magnets and low-frequency radio waves to directly measure blood sugar levels non-invasively when a user inserts a finger into …
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is opening a research center in New York City dedicated to developing new techniques for early disease detection and treatment. CZ Biohub NY, as it’s being called, will work with Columbia, Rockefeller and Yale universities to learn how immune cells detect and attack specific diseases, and eventually use this insight to …