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Regina Barzilay, James Collins, and Phil Sharp join leadership of new effort on machine learning in health
Read more: Regina Barzilay, James Collins, and Phil Sharp join leadership of new effort on machine learning in healthPhotMacArthur "geniuses" in machine learning and synthetic biology to serve as faculty co-leads; Nobel laureate to chair advisory board of new reasearch center. Regina Barzilay and James Collins have been named the faculty co-leads of the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health, or J-Clinic, effective immediately, announced Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the…
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Scientists Are Retooling Bacteria to Cure Disease
Read more: Scientists Are Retooling Bacteria to Cure DiseaseBy manipulating DNA, researchers are trying to create microbes that, once ingested, work to treat a rare genetic condition – a milestone in synthetic biology. …
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Exploring Cancer metabolism
Read more: Exploring Cancer metabolismMatthew Vander Heiden seeks new cancer treatments that exploit tumor cells' abnormal metabolism Nearly 100 years ago, the German chemist Otto Warburg discovered that cancer cells metabolize nutrients differently than most normal cells. His discovery launched the field of cancer metabolism research, but interest in this area waned; by the 1970s most cancer scientists had…
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