Medscape March 7, 2025
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can simultaneously assess blood samples for infections, autoimmune diseases, and vaccine responses, according to a new study.
The algorithm analyzed genes encoding immune cell receptors to identify patients with COVID-19, HIV, type 1 diabetes, lupus, those who recently received a flu vaccination, and healthy controls.
These receptor sequences are “unique sources of potential diagnostic information,” said Scott Boyd, MD, PhD, a professor of pathology at Stanford University, Stanford, California, and one of the senior authors of the paper. “They haven’t really been used to diagnose anything apart from cancers that are derived from B cells and T cells at present.”
While the study, published in Science on February 21, is a proof of concept,...
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