An international, interdisciplinary research team led by Prof. Jakob N. Kather from the Else Kröner Fresenius Center (EKFZ) for Digital Health at TU Dresden analyzed seven independent patient cohorts from Europe and the USA using their newly developed AI model. The model detects genetic alterations and resulting tissue changes in colorectal cancer directly from tissue section images. This could enable faster and more cost-effective diagnostics in the future. For the development, validation, and data analysis of the model, experts in data and computer science, epidemiology, pathology, and oncology worked closely together. The study has been published in the journal “The Lancet Digital Health”.

In APL Bioengineering, researchers introduce a simple way to improve our sense of smell using radio waves, which can directly target the part of our brain responsible for smell, without causing pain. In the test, a small radio antenna was placed near volunteers’ foreheads and emitted radio waves to reach the smell-related nerves deep in the brain. The team found that their method improved subjects’ sense of smell for over a week after just one treatment.