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Machine learning helps detect new potential drugs to treat COVID-19

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have used machine learning to identify hundreds of new potential drugs that could help treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2.

12 Aug 2020

Researchers develop machine learning tool to predict necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a life-threatening intestinal disease of prematurity. Characterized by sudden and progressive intestinal inflammation and tissue death, it affects up to 11,000 premature infants in the United States annually, and 15-30% of affected babies die from NEC.

11 Aug 2020

Real-life discussions may help counter anti-vaccination influences from social media

The flu vaccine is considered one of the great achievements in public health, and each year it prevents millions of people from getting sick and thousands of deaths.

10 Aug 2020

AI-enhanced precision medicine approach lays groundwork for identification of autism subtype

A novel precision medicine approach enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) has laid the groundwork for what could be the first biomedical screening and intervention tool for a subtype of autism, reports a new study from Northwestern University, Ben Gurion University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

10 Aug 2020

Experts develop new self-testing platform for AI-based medical services

Experts from the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine have developed a platform for self-testing services which is based on artificial intelligence and designed for medical tasks, such as for analyzing diagnostic images.

7 Aug 2020

Study: Drinking honeysuckle decoction accelerates the negative conversion of COVID-19 patients

In a new study in Cell Discovery, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing University and two other groups from Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Second Hospital of Nanjing present a novel finding that absorbed miRNA MIR2911 in honeysuckle decoction (HD) can directly target SARS-CoV-2 genes and inhibit viral replication. Drinking of HD accelerate the negative conversion of COVID-19 patients.

7 Aug 2020

Researchers develop a deep learning-based algorithm for predicting sites of DNA methylation

A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation - a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure - and could identify disease-causing mechanisms that would otherwise be missed by conventional screening methods.

6 Aug 2020

New partnership advances virtual reality for social anxiety disorder

BehaVR, a leading innovator of virtual reality digital wellness and digital therapeutics experiences, today announced that it has begun a new partnership aimed at leveraging virtual reality experiences to address critical unmet needs in social anxiety disorder, an underreported and undertreated mental health condition.

6 Aug 2020

Cytiva licenses advanced machine learning technology from Allen Institute

Cytiva and the Allen Institute have entered into a license agreement to integrate the Allen Institute's machine learning technology with Cytiva's microscopy and image analysis systems to advance the development of cell imaging innovations.

From Cytiva Life Sciences 6 Aug 2020

New medical imaging resource center at UChicago will help tackle COVID-19 pandemic

A new center hosted at the University of Chicago -- co-led by the largest medical imaging professional organizations in the country -- will help tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by curating a massive database of medical images to help better understand and treat the disease.

5 Aug 2020

Warming climate in Southern California may increase risk of West Nile outbreaks

As climate change brings hotter weather to Southern California, coastal populations from San Diego to Santa Barbara may face an increased risk of contracting West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, suggests a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

5 Aug 2020

NIH harnesses artificial intelligence and medical imaging to fight COVID-19

The National Institutes of Health has launched the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center, an ambitious effort that will harness the powers of artificial intelligence, and medical imaging to fight COVID-19.

5 Aug 2020

SNIS 17th Annual Meeting highlights COVID-19 and racial disparities in stroke treatment

The next frontier in neurointerventional surgery, including advances in stroke triage and management, innovations in artificial intelligence and robotics in endovascular surgery, new findings on racial disparities in stroke treatment and the neurologic impact of COVID-19 are a few of the topics that will be covered at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 17th Annual Meeting taking place virtually August 4-7, 2020.

5 Aug 2020

Researchers use computational models to examine how sleep prevents damage to old memories

From lowering your risk of obesity and cardiovascular disease to improving your concentration and overall daily performance, sleep has been proven to play a critical role in our health.

5 Aug 2020

Machine learning may offer a better way to identify antibiotic-resistant pathogens

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have shown that different strains of the same bacterial pathogen can be distinguished by a machine learning analysis of their growth dynamics alone, which can then also accurately predict other traits such as resistance to antibiotics.

4 Aug 2020

NIH-funded project to develop AI-based system to help doctors cure cancer

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to cure cancer may sound like science-fiction, but Eugene Santos Jr., a professor of engineering at Dartmouth, disagrees.

4 Aug 2020

AI-enabled ECG provides a rapid and effective method to screen heart failure

When people seek emergency care for shortness of breath, a routine electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) is better than standard blood tests at determining if the cause is heart failure, according to new research published today in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, an American Heart Association journal.

4 Aug 2020

Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Latest Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Machine learning helps detect new potential drugs to treat COVID-19

Researchers develop machine learning tool to predict necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants

Real-life discussions may help counter anti-vaccination influences from social media

AI-enhanced precision medicine approach lays groundwork for identification of autism subtype

Experts develop new self-testing platform for AI-based medical services

Study: Drinking honeysuckle decoction accelerates the negative conversion of COVID-19 patients

Researchers develop a deep learning-based algorithm for predicting sites of DNA methylation

New partnership advances virtual reality for social anxiety disorder

Cytiva licenses advanced machine learning technology from Allen Institute

New medical imaging resource center at UChicago will help tackle COVID-19 pandemic

Warming climate in Southern California may increase risk of West Nile outbreaks

NIH harnesses artificial intelligence and medical imaging to fight COVID-19

SNIS 17th Annual Meeting highlights COVID-19 and racial disparities in stroke treatment

Researchers use computational models to examine how sleep prevents damage to old memories

Machine learning may offer a better way to identify antibiotic-resistant pathogens

NIH-funded project to develop AI-based system to help doctors cure cancer

AI-enabled ECG provides a rapid and effective method to screen heart failure

Artificial intelligence can increase effectiveness of drug repurposing for psychiatric disorders

New biomarkers may identify Type 1 diabetes patients who could benefit from immunotherapy

Oxford University and ZOE join forces to widen access to COVID-19 treatment trials

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