AI explodes
Taking the pulse of artificial intelligence in medicine
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AI explodes
Taking the pulse of artificial intelligence in medicine

Health on a planet in crisis

Real-world health
How social factors make or break us

Molecules of life
Understanding the world within us
From the archive
Adding ethics to the mix when developing health care AI
A bioethics expert is designing exercises to encourage ethical responsibility in programming
Mind in the machine
Do nerve cells hold the key to an epic advance in computing?
Teens and screens
How to safeguard young people’s well-being on social media
Where is ‘I’
The physical sense of self has been localized
And yet, there’s hope
A family devastated by cancer plants seeds to vanquish the disease
Defining AI’s place in health and medicine
Dean Lloyd Minor on the need to not only learn to employ AI effectively but also to invest in efforts to guide its safe and responsible use
Healing tips from worms
How injury can trigger responses in distant tissues
Who’s training whom?
A physician’s surprising encounter with ChatGPT
Cautiously optimistic
Leaders of Stanford’s initiative for responsible health AI look ahead
Clinical trials in a dish
Fast-forwarding drug development
AI-boosted biopsy scrutiny
With all patients’ tissue samples digitized, AI-assisted analysis begins
An act of love
For a family with roots in Asia and a loved one in the hospital, food is more than just food
It worked
A pregnant woman risked a treatment herself, hoping to heal her developing baby, who would be born with cystic fibrosis
Healthy fat’s longevity link
Number of lipid droplets predicts lifespan of lab worms
Poor memory linked to autism
Findings suggest broad memory impairment plays a part in disorder