Authored by: Lauren Wilkes Art by: Edsel Ou How could we know that two individuals, even seemingly physically similar individuals may have a completely different reaction to the same prescribed drug or drug therapy? What this truly comes down to is how one’s body metabolizes the drug in question. The next question becomes how do we detect or predict, if an individual will metabolize a drug a certain way, or in a way that is different from other individuals receiving the same drug? The field...

Authored by: Lauren Wilkes Art by: Eileen Cho As AI becomes further integrated into our society and, more specifically, into the healthcare industry, the question of how favorably AI will ultimately impact the medical field is imminent. When it comes to genome sequencing in the genetics and biomedical research fields, the latest AI software, AlphaGenome, shows extreme promise. AlphaGenome is the newest DNA sequence AI model that provides advanced functional predictions of genetic variants of...

Authored by: Lauren Wilkes Art by: Mia Hsu So much of the discussion for how we approach curing genetic diseases centers around how we...