Tag Artificial intelligence

5 Sep

World First at Hadassah:

An artificial-intelligence algorithm to identify a group of “point mutations” that cause cancer in TP53 – a gene involved in about half of all cancerous tumours – has been developed by a group of researchers at Hadassah-University Hospital in Jerusalem. Their discovery has aroused much interest among doctors and scientists around the world.   The […]

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16 Feb

Predictive-AI Algorithm Successfully Identifies Common Cancerous Gene Mutations at Hadassah Cancer Research Institute

Breakthrough research at Hadassah identifies all possible cancer-causing mutations of a key gene (TP53) found in 50% of tumours. The Hadassah Cancer Research Institute at the Hadassah University Medical Centre in Jerusalem, announced today that using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have developed, an algorithm to identify, with an unprecedented 96.5% level of accuracy, all possible deleterious […]

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21 Jan

Welcome to the decade when medicine meets sci-fi fantasy

Edited from an article in The Times, 17 January 2020. Thanks to AI and genome editing, age-defying treatment breakthroughs that were just out of our reach should become reality, says Tom Whipple. In the next ten years medicine will get cleverer, more targeted and personalised. But what is personalised medicine? Experimental genetic therapies find their way […]

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