AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer’s, And Maybe a Treatment

By David Nield – Science alert

Artificial intelligence is a broad term encompassing many different subtypes, from apps that can write poetry to algorithms that are able to spot patterns that would otherwise get missed – and now AI modeling has just played a major role in an Alzheimer’s study.

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) used AI to discover that a gene recognized as a sign of Alzheimer’s disease could be causing it too. It highlights one of the big challenges in the study of Alzheimer’s: understanding both the changes the disease causes, and the changes that cause the disease.