Newly Developed AI-Powered Sensors Could Ease Early Cancer Detection
Early cancer detection has long been one of the biggest challenges in modern medicine. Many cancers are only discovered when symptoms appear, and by then, treatment becomes harder and survival rates drop. A newly developed AI-powered sensor system could change this story by making it easier to detect cancer much earlier, even before clear symptoms begin. Researchers from MIT and Microsoft have created an artificial intelligence system that designs tiny molecular sensors able to spot cancer-related activity inside the body. These sensors are built using nanoparticles coated with short proteins called peptides. The peptides are specially designed to react to enzymes known as proteases. Proteases play an…