This past year, researchers at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario announced the development of a new artificial intelligence-enabled search algorithm that can help identify patients who might have ...

Proteogenomics explores how genetic information translates into protein expression and function, and the role of changes across DNA, RNA, and proteins in influencing disease development and ...

Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist's job. They don't always remember to do it, however. At the University of Pennsylvania Health System, doctors are nudged to talk ...

Rare diseases can often be difficult to diagnose because their symptoms can overlap with a variety of conditions. One such disease is acute hepatic porphyria (AHP), a rare genetic disease with ...

Thus, far from being an anarchic accident, cancer follows an orderly programme. "The challenge is therefore to find the keys to understanding its logic and form. And, in the case of metastases, to ...

Sometimes, in genetics, two wrongs do make a right. A research team has recently shown that two harmful genetic variants, when occurring together in a gene, can restore function—proving a decades-old ...

From assessing a patient's cancer risk to setting criminal sentences, AI and algorithms are increasingly used to make life-altering decisions in ...