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How AI Can Help Spot Early Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease

UCSF Health — February 20, 2024

UCSF scientists found a way to predict Alzheimer’s disease up to seven years before symptoms appear by analyzing patient records with machine learning. Conditions that most influenced prediction of Alzheimer’s were high cholesterol and, for women, osteoporosis.

UCSF School of Medicine

TB vaccine shrinks liver cancer tumors in mice

UC Davis Health — February 20, 2024

Could the TB vaccine be a new immunotherapy for liver cancer? A new study found that the century-old vaccine reduced tumors and extended survival for mice with liver cancer.

Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan with coauthor Ying Hu at Wan's Lab

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