MIT Professor Who Advanced Cancer Treatment Wins $1 Million AI Prize

Regina Barzilay, a breast cancer survivor, was recognized for her work in breast-cancer detection and drug discovery.

A leading AI researcher calls for standards to ensure equity and fairness

A top researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday said that artificial intelligence systems developed for medicine must be more transparent and judged against a set...

Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages

Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.

Can these researchers catch cancer much earlier than ever before?

From revolutionizing the mammogram to spotting a single tumor cell in the blood...

Looking to Technology to Avoid Doctors’ Offices and Emergency Rooms

Americans are eagerly turning to the latest tech devices in hopes of preventing and detecting medical problems early...

From Gene Editing to A.I., How Will Technology Transform Humanity?

Five big thinkers — Regina Barzilay, George Church, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Mohr, and Siddhartha Mukherjee — puzzle over the future of the future. 

Automating molecule design to speed up drug development

Machine-learning model could help chemists make molecules with higher potencies, much more quickly.