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Nov 4

aijamayrock

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Nov 3

This scientist can smell cancer.

This is Hossam Haick - a scientist and engineer at @TechnionLive.

After one of his friends was diagnosed with cancer, he thought to himself, "There must be a way to detect cancer earlier and faster."

So he spent 15 YEARS building an electronic it for 3 seconds and the machine analyzes thousands of chemical compounds in your breath and can know if you have a disease and what category of disease you have: cancer, neurological disease, lung disease.

This technology has been tested on 30,000 patients across 17 different countries.

Hossam's dream is to get this technology to be so accurate that it can not only tell you what kind of disease you have, but also what type of treatment you should get.

It's still in clinical trials but hopefully accessible in the near future. Read more about Hossam's work here: ats.org/explore/articl…

Technion Israel

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Oct 21

aijamayrock

@aijamayrock

Oct 20

I found a woman who is 3D printing HUMAN BODY PARTS.

This is Dr. Shulamit Levenberg - a biomedical engineer who is 3D printing living tissue. She's printed an ear, a blood vessel and is working on a spinal cord.

This is how she does it:
1. She uses 3D printing to create a can grow on - made of collagen
2. She adds the patient's own cells to the scaffold
3. The cells slowly start to organize into tissue
4. She works with tiny blood vessels to keep the tissues alive

Dr. Levenberg and her lab tried this on rats and something crazy happened: paralyzed rats began walking again!

This research is still incredibly early, but stepping into this lab felt like seeing the future. A future where medicine may not be a pill, but it may be printed in a lab.

For more information on her work, check out: lnkd.in/eUjMGPgk @TechnionUSA

Technion Israel

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Oct 15

aijamayrock

@aijamayrock

Oct 12

This man used AI to treat breast cancer! And it took him 30,000 hours to do it!

This is Dr. Gil Shamai - a computer scientist at @TechnionLive. He realized that AI can detect tiny patterns in tumor tissue that the human eye might miss under a microscope. And these patterns can cancer returning, as well as if the patient needs chemo or surgery. So he spent 30,000 hours developing an AI that can study these images and tell doctors this information.

For more information on Dr. Shamai's work, check out: ats.org/explore/articl… @TechnionUSA