All Roads Lead to microRNA! (And: ML/AI!)

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October 7, 2024:

Over the last few months, I have been reading up on advances in Quantum Dots (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2023), as applied to biosensor detection, and Liquid Biopsy, as applicable to early cancer detection (as well as to a signal for possible organ rejection after transplantation, topics that have been of interest to me for some time, see From Information to Impact and Holy Grail of Holy Grail):

Progress in quantum dot-based biosensors for microRNA assay: A review

Quantum Dots for Cancer-Related miRNA Monitoring

Integrating a microRNA signature as a liquid biopsy-based tool for the early diagnosis and prediction of potential therapeutic targets in pancreatic cancer

Imagine my excitement to wake up this morning and see that:

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

The prize was awarded for their discovery of microRNA, which helps determine how cells develop and function.

When will Liquid Biopsy be recognized with a Nobel Prize?

Update on October 8th: 

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton have “showed a completely new way for us to use computers to aid and to guide us” in solving problems, the committee said.

You know that I mentioned Geoffrey Hinton in my April 2021 post NSF Engineering Distinguished Lecture.

Why?

I gave the June 2021 lecture. He had given the February 2021 one!

Just saying!

[Of course, my research (and teaching) includes work on Machine Learning for Liquid Biopsy, Quantum Machine Learning…]

Update on October 9th:

The Nobel, awarded to David Baker of the University of Washington and Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind, is the second this week to involve artificial intelligence.

 

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