In a world-first, a full-body MRI scanner for real-time imaging has been combined with a proton therapy system to provide a scientific prototype for MRI-guided proton therapy. With this installation in Dresden, Germany, experts from the fields of medicine, medical physics, biology and engineering are embarking on the scientific testing of a new form of […]

Scientists at the Georgia Tech Integrated Cancer Research Center (ICRC) have combined machine learning with information on blood metabolites to develop a new test able to detect ovarian cancer with 93 percent accuracy among samples from the team’s study group.

Using a type of deep learning artificial intelligence, researchers at the Wyss Institute and MIT have discovered a class of compounds that can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA),  a drug-resistant bacterium that causes many deaths around the world every year.