Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is an umbrella term for machine learning and deep learning. It is where a machine takes in information from its surroundings and, from that, makes the most optimal decision appropriate to the situation.

AI in Food: How Artificial Intelligence is Designing Healthier and More Sustainable Foods

Artificial intelligence is transforming food innovation by accelerating ingredient discovery, optimizing formulations, and enabling personalized nutrition strategies to improve public health outcomes. AI-driven tools also support food safety assessment, sustainable food systems, and precision nutrition while raising important governance, equity, and validation challenges.

Artificial Intelligence and Life Science

Applying Deep Learning to Localization Microscopy

Managing the Explosion of Healthcare Data to Harness its Power

Machine Learning in Drug Development

What does ChatGPT mean for Healthcare?

Deep-Learning in Radiology

The Role of AI in Pathogen Detection and Epidemic Prediction

AI-Powered Genomic Analysis: Revolutionizing the Detection of Genetic Mutations

Uncovering the Mystery of the Human Brain with Computational Neuroscience

Is Data at the Center of Healthcare for the Future?

Beyond Virtual Consultations: The Rise of AI-Driven Virtual Healthcare Assistants

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AI Psychosis: How Artificial Intelligence May Trigger Delusions and Paranoia

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Ethical Considerations in AI-Driven Healthcare

The Pros and Cons of Healthcare Chatbots

Artificial Intelligence in Histopathology

Artificial Intelligence in CBT

Can Artificial Intelligence be used to Diagnose Brain Aneurysms?

How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Emergency Medicine

Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Medicine

Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology

Latest Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Global health progress reversing in several critical areas, WHO warns

While there have been meaningful improvements in global health over the past decade, with millions benefiting from better prevention, treatment and access to essential services, persistent and emerging challenges mean that the world remains off track to achieve any of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

13 May 2026

Researchers discover a brain signal that predicts child attention lapses

Inside a world-leading deep brain stimulation program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), researchers have discovered a brain signal that predicts when a child is about to lose attention - and that a brief, targeted intervention in response to that signal can restore their focus.

13 May 2026

Penn researchers develop ApexGO to enhance promising antibiotic candidates

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed ApexGO, a novel, AI-powered method for turning promising but imperfect antibiotic candidates into more potent ones.

13 May 2026

AI models predict sudden cardiac arrest risk using health records

Researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that can scrutinize electronic health records (EHR) and electrocardiograms to identify individuals in the general population at elevated risk for sudden cardiac arrest - a condition that causes more than 400,000 U.S. deaths annually and has a survival rate of only 10%.

13 May 2026

Researchers find new way to deliver drugs directly into cancer cells

National University of Singapore Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a high-throughput method to identify gold nanoparticles capable of delivering therapies directly to mitochondria (the energy centres inside cancer cells).

13 May 2026

AI-powered handheld microscope may improve early cancer detection

Researchers at Rice University and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a compact, artificial intelligence-powered imaging device that could transform how clinicians detect cancer.

12 May 2026

Home-based assessments may detect early mobility risks

Predicting whether a healthy 45-year-old will struggle to climb stairs or walk a decade later has long been a challenge for geriatric medicine.

12 May 2026

Dual-pathway protein degradation approach could improve cancer treatment

Targeted protein degradation has become one of the most promising strategies in modern drug discovery, enabling scientists to eliminate disease-causing proteins instead of merely blocking them.

12 May 2026

Interactive AI model improves explainable lung cancer diagnosis from CT scans

Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide, making early and accurate diagnosis essential for improving patient outcomes.

12 May 2026

KIT researchers develop contact-free laser technique to rotate microscopic samples

Until now, it has been technically nearly impossible to rotate highly sensitive samples in all directions under a microscope without making contact.

12 May 2026

Using AI to improve success rates of fecal microbiota transplants

MOZAIC leverages deep learning to optimize fecal microbiota transplantation, enhancing treatment efficacy through precise donor-recipient microbiome matching.

12 May 2026

BGI Genomics joins HGP2 Rare Disease Alliance to close rare disease care gap in Asia-Pacific

The HGP2 RaDiAnce-APAC initiative enhances rare disease diagnosis and genomic medicine, fostering collaboration for improved health in the Asia-Pacific region.

From BGI Genomics 12 May 2026

Scientists call for explainable AI in protein language models

Protein language models are artificial intelligence tools which help engineer proteins with useful properties, including completely new structures never seen before in nature.

11 May 2026

New AI framework predicts how cells make fate decisions

Scientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich, and the University of Oxford have developed RegVelo - a new AI framework that simultaneously models cellular dynamics and gene regulation, enabling researchers to predict, simulate, and experimentally validate how cells make fate decisions.

11 May 2026

Advanced 3D heart models could transform cardiovascular drug discovery

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading global health burden, yet many preclinical systems still struggle to predict how candidate drugs will perform in the human heart.

10 May 2026

Immigrant workers face barriers translating skills into meaningful employment

From seasonal farmhands to health care workers to high-level software analysts, immigrant workers play a significant role in companies and industries across Canada and around the globe.

8 May 2026

AI-driven hormone tracking could help detect infertility early and improve conception

Men and women who appear hormonally 'normal' may still have undetected disruptions in the timing and coordination of their reproductive hormones that could impair fertility, according to research presented at the 28th European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague.

8 May 2026