Artificial Intelligence Uses Crowds To Fight Cancer

Célula HeLa muriendo mediante apoptosis

There is definitely strength in numbers!  Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a computer program that analyzes genetic information from cancers to predict the effectiveness of different drug treatments.  Importantly, they want to share their work (and code) with whomever wants to help.

Learn more and get the code: http://www.journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0186906

Image Credit
NIH-funded image of HeLa cell / National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research / Thomas Deerinck / Mark Ellisman