A new application of artificial intelligence could help researchers solve medical mysteries ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's.
It's a 3D model of a living human cell that lets scientists study the interior structures of a cell even when they can only see the exterior and the nucleus — the largest structure in a cell. The model was unveiled to the public Wednesday by the Allen Institute for Cell Science in Seattle.
The technology is freely available, and Roger Brent, an investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who was not involved in the tool's development, has been using it for several months. He's a big fan.
"This lets you see things with a simple microscope that are going to be helpful to researchers all over the world — including in less affluent places," Brent says.
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