Research

The confluence of medicine and artificial intelligence stands to create truly high-performance, specialized care for patients, with enhanced precision diagnosis and personalized disease management.

MIT researchers have generated what they describe as the most accurate and complete gene annotation of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. In their study, which appears today in Nature Communications, they confirmed several protein-coding genes and found that a few others that had been suggested as genes do not code for any proteins.

Robotic arm equipped with a hairbrush helps with brushing tasks and could be an asset in assistive-care settings. 

“Programmable matter” technique could enable product designers to churn out prototypes with ease.