Bowel cancer, commonly referred to as colorectal cancer, can develop anywhere in the large bowel, including the colon and rectum. It ranks among the most prevalent cancers globally, with 1.9 million new cases recorded in 2020. The current protocols for determining the need for chemotherapy for patients with early-stage bowel cancer are not consistently reliable. As a result, some patients receive chemotherapy unnecessarily, while others who might benefit from it do not receive it and may face cancer recurrence. This decision is particularly challenging for stage II colon cancer, where the risk of recurrence post-surgery is generally lower. Now, a new artificial intelligence (AI) test can predict the risk of recurrence in bowel cancers, potentially helping patients avoid unnecessary chemotherapy. This test employs an AI algorithm to measure the concentration of immune cells known as CD3 in tumors at the early stages of bowel cancer. Previous studies have indicated that ...
EMA and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMAs) have published an Artificial Intelligence (AI) workplan to 2028, setting out a collaborative and coordinated strategy to maximise the benefits of AI to stakeholders while managing the risks. The workplan will help the European medicines regulatory network (EMRN) to embrace the opportunities of AI for personal productivity, automating processes and systems, increasing insights into data and supporting more robust decision-making to benefit public and animal health. The AI workplan, prepared under the joint HMA-EMA Big Data Steering Group (BDSG), ensures the EMRN remains at the forefront in benefiting from AI in medicines regulation. The workplan was adopted by EMA’s Management Board at its December meeting. The field of AI is developing swiftly. Pharmaceutical companies increasingly use AI-powered tools in research, development and monitoring of medicines. National competent authorities are responding to the new opportunities and challenges by starting to use and develop ...
Using artificial intelligence, researchers say, they’ve found a new type of antibiotic that works against a particularly menacing drug-resistant bacteria. When they tested the antibiotic on the skin of mice that were experimentally infected with the superbug, it controlled the growth of the bacteria, suggesting that the method could be used to create antibiotics tailored to fight other drug-resistant pathogens. What’s more, the compound identified by AI worked in a way that stymied only the problem pathogen. It didn’t seem to kill the many other species of beneficial bacteria that live in the gut or on the skin, making it a rare narrowly targeted agent. If more antibiotics worked this precisely, the researchers said, it could prevent bacteria from becoming resistant in the first place. The study was published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. “It’s incredibly promising,” said Dr. Cesar de la Fuente, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s ...
New research by the University of South Australia in partnership with the University of Stuttgart, Flinders University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany have developed hi-tech machine-learning algorithms to reveal a connection between personality and eye movements.
A recent survey from Intel revealed that health system decision-makers have considered artificial intelligence as a new element of life. Still, many people are anxious as to whether it could provide safe care.
Mark Michalski, MD, executive director of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Clinical Data Science stated that the anticipation regarding AI is due to three key factors: the increasing contribution of digital data that can be created, the creation of algorithms that make artificial neural networks and "GPU" chip architecture (graphics processing unit), developed by NVIDIA.
Artificial intelligence company twoXAR—a specialist in separating signals from noise in data-rich drug discovery projects—has raised $10 million in a first-round financing led by SoftBank Ventures.
Aseptika in St Ives and Zenzium in Cheshire have been awarded an unspecified grant from the UK’s innovation agency to leverage AI and develop a new home-based early warning system for people with severe respiratory disease.
Stuart McGuigan took on his role as CIO of industry behemoth Johnson & Johnson in 2012. That was around the same time that Alex Gorsky joined the company as CEO. Since then, part of Gorsky’s mission has been to help J&J focus on technology, McGuigan said in an interview at HIMSS this week.
Paige.AI, a new company focused on revolutionizing clinical diagnosis and treatment in oncology through use of artificial intelligence (AI), launches today as it announces two major milestones
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