Dusko Ilic

Cargo

Professor of Stem Cell Sciences, King's College London (KCL).

Topics

bioengineering, gene therapy, genetics

Study claims to estimate risk of death from oral cells with an epigenetic clock

genetics

Study claims to estimate risk of death from oral cells with an epigenetic clock

SMC Spain

A study published in the journal Frontiers in Aging claims to have developed an epigenetic tool to estimate the risk of death from cells in the mouth.

AstraZeneca's new AI tool could predict more than a thousand diseases before diagnosis

artificial intelligence

AstraZeneca's new AI tool could predict more than a thousand diseases before diagnosis

SMC Spain

A study published today in Nature Genetics examines AstraZeneca's new tool, MILTON, which uses artificial intelligence to detect biomarkers and predict diseases before they are diagnosed. According to this analysis, the tool could potentially predict over a thousand diseases and may even be more effective than the currently available polygenic risk scores.