Thursday, May 8, 2025

Health Technology

Strain-level metagenomic profiling using pangenome graphs with PanTax

AbstractMicrobes are omnipresent, thriving in a range of habitats, from oceans to soils, and even within our gastrointestinal tracts. They play a vital role...

McGill University Health’s journey to a data-driven culture

Hospitals and health systems often struggle to establish a data-driven culture due to challenges that include fragmented data sources, outdated infrastructure, the complexity of...

Natural variation in Caenorhabditis elegans collective behavior reveals potential adaptation to novel environments

AbstractRecent advances in quantitative approaches to behavior have enabled rigorous trait measurements that allow us to understand how behavior evolves in multiple taxa(1-7). However,...

Minimal Gene Signatures Enable High-Accuracy Prediction of Antibiotic Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

AbstractAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa poses a critical global health challenge, with current diagnostics relying on slow, culture-based methods. Here, we present a...

Transitioning from paper-based to an AI-powered EMR system

Almost a year after completing its EMR rollout, publicly-listed healthcare group EMC Healthcare in Indonesia is set to upgrade to an AI-driven system for...

13C tracing in synaptosomes reveals that SGLT2 inhibition with dapagliflozin prevents metabolic deficits in the 5X-FAD model of Alzheimer’s Disease

AbstractMetabolic dysfunction is linked to several forms of age-related neurodegeneration including Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and targeting brain energy metabolism is an increasingly attractive mode...

Comparative phylogeography of lizards (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) in Baja California and expansion of Callisaurus draconoides within the North American deserts

AbstractWe examined the comparative phylogeography of five co-distributed lizard complexes (representing four genera within Phrynosomatidae) along the Baja California Peninsula (BCP) in the context...

Prompt Engineering in Healthcare: Best Practices, Strategies & Trends

  What Is Prompt Engineering in Healthcare? Prompt engineering is the process of telling an AI solution what to do and how to do it. Using...