Foundation models for generalist medical artificial intelligence

M Moor, O Banerjee, ZSH Abad, HM Krumholz… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The exceptionally rapid development of highly flexible, reusable artificial intelligence (AI)
models is likely to usher in newfound capabilities in medicine. We propose a new paradigm …

Algorithmic fairness in artificial intelligence for medicine and healthcare

RJ Chen, JJ Wang, DFK Williamson, TY Chen… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
In healthcare, the development and deployment of insufficiently fair systems of artificial
intelligence (AI) can undermine the delivery of equitable care. Assessments of AI models …

Comorbidities, multimorbidity and COVID-19

CD Russell, NI Lone, JK Baillie - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The influence of comorbidities on COVID-19 outcomes has been recognized since the
earliest days of the pandemic. But establishing causality and determining underlying …

A multi-ancestry polygenic risk score improves risk prediction for coronary artery disease

AP Patel, M Wang, Y Ruan, S Koyama, SL Clarke… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of individuals at highest risk of coronary artery disease (CAD)—ideally before
onset—remains an important public health need. Prior studies have developed genome …

Causal relationship between gut microbiota and cancers: a two-sample Mendelian randomisation study

Y Long, L Tang, Y Zhou, S Zhao, H Zhu - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Evidence from observational studies and clinical trials suggests that the gut
microbiota is associated with cancer. However, the causal association between gut …

Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals

S Marek, B Tervo-Clemmens, FJ Calabro, DF Montez… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has transformed our understanding of the human brain
through well-replicated map** of abilities to specific structures (for example, lesion …

Atlas of plasma NMR biomarkers for health and disease in 118,461 individuals from the UK Biobank

H Julkunen, A Cichońska, M Tiainen, H Koskela… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Blood lipids and metabolites are markers of current health and future disease risk. Here, we
describe plasma nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) biomarker data for 118,461 …

Heterogeneous aging across multiple organ systems and prediction of chronic disease and mortality

YE Tian, V Cropley, AB Maier, NT Lautenschlager… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Biological aging of human organ systems reflects the interplay of age, chronic disease,
lifestyle and genetic risk. Using longitudinal brain imaging and physiological phenotypes …

Metabolomic profiles predict individual multidisease outcomes

T Buergel, J Steinfeldt, G Ruyoga, M Pietzner… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Risk stratification is critical for the early identification of high-risk individuals and disease
prevention. Here we explored the potential of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) …

A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue

MP Emont, C Jacobs, AL Essene, D Pant, D Tenen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
White adipose tissue, once regarded as morphologically and functionally bland, is now
recognized to be dynamic, plastic and heterogenous, and is involved in a wide array of …