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How to create “humble” AI

An MIT-led team is designing artificial intelligence systems for medical diagnosis that are more collaborative and forthcoming about uncertainty.

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Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?

Researchers at MIT, Mass General Brigham, and Harvard Medical School developed a deep-learning model to forecast a patient’s heart failure prognosis up to a year in advance.

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3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression

Assistant Professor Matthew Jones is working to decode molecular processes on the genetic, epigenetic, and microenvironment levels to anticipate how and when tumors evolve to resist treatment.

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How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology

From early motion-sensing platforms to environmental monitoring, the professor and head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences has turned decades of cross-disciplinary research into real-world impact.

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AI to help researchers see the bigger picture in cell biology

By providing holistic information on a cell, an AI-driven method could help scientists better understand disease mechanisms and plan experiments.

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MIT scientists debut a generative AI model that could create molecules addressing hard-to-treat diseases

BoltzGen generates protein binders for any biological target from scratch, expanding AI’s reach from understanding biology toward engineering it.

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Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code

Co-founded by an MIT alumnus, Watershed Bio offers researchers who aren’t software engineers a way to run large-scale analyses to accelerate biology.

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AI maps how a new antibiotic targets gut bacteria

MIT CSAIL and McMaster researchers used a generative AI model to reveal how a narrow-spectrum antibiotic attacks disease-causing bacteria, speeding up a process that normally takes years.

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New AI system could accelerate clinical research

By enabling rapid annotation of areas of interest in medical images, the tool can help scientists study new treatments or map disease progression.

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MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection

VaxSeer uses machine learning to predict virus evolution and antigenicity, aiming to make vaccine selection more accurate and less reliant on guesswork.