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Victor Nauff annotates an MRI image. These annotations can be used to train machine learning models to recognize different structures of the heart automatically.

News / 12.1.22

How machine learning is driving innovation in cardiovascular disease research

A community of computer scientists and physician-scientists at Broad is applying computational approaches to patient data to gain new insights into heart disease.Read more

News / 11.29.22

Launch of the Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology

Nominations are now open for the first award of the Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology, which recognizes novel technologies that have improved human health.Read more

Meredith Fedorovsky

News / 11.22.22

Gene-delivering viruses reach the brain in a step toward gene therapy for neurological diseases

Researchers have engineered a family of adeno-associated viral vectors that cross the blood-brain barrier in primate models.Read more

Alex Ritter, Jennifer Lippincott Schwartz and Gillian Griffiths, National Institutes of Health

News / 11.21.22

Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center announces data science challenge to harness machine learning for cancer immunotherapy

Challenge participants will propose genetic changes to T cells that could make them better at killing cancer cells. The most promising submissions will be tested out in the lab.Read more

Sara Jane Cromer

Blog / 11.14.22

#WhyIScience Q&A: An endocrinologist and clinical researcher explores how racism and other social factors affect patients with type 2 diabetes

Sara Jane Cromer talks about the importance of including social determinants of health in research.Read more