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Apr 2024
36m 51s

Switzerland, AI and Liquid Biopsies

Tjasa Zajc
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AI and predictive modeling to understand an individual’s immune system function and predict treatment response are still in very early stages. We dream about precision medicine and getting every answer we can for ourselves when we get sick. However, if we look at genomics, only about 20 percent of human coding genes are well-studied. The remaining 80 percent ... Show More
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