personalized-health

Obesity is a multifactorial chronic disease whose worldwide prevalence in adults has more than doubled since 1990, demanding a shift from reactive treatment towards early, personalised prevention. Artificial intelligence (AI) provides a methodological pathway for this shift by integrating heterogeneous, longitudinal evidence—genomic, metabolomic, electronic health record (EHR), wearable Internet-…

Drs. Cruchaga and Karch are some of the Washington University investigators that received funding from Centene to perform molecular phenotyping of Alzheimer’s cases to identify novel molecular biomarkers and the identification of novel therapeutically targets. Specifically we plan to develop a personalized medicine approach to understand the effects of Alzheimer’s disease risk genes by combining …

Do you ever wonder how long it would take to burn off that piece of cake? Or how much cardio you need each day? This information is largely dependent on a person's DNA, so even though there's a lot of information out there - it isn't necessarily all useful. In an effort to make health and wellness easier for consumers, IBM's Watson supercomputer has teamed up with a DNA testing company called Pat…