Google DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome 2, an AI model that predicts specific cell types affected by single DNA mutations, improving on whole-tissue analysis.
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🧐 Every cell has the same DNA. Google's new AI predicts which cells a mutation affects AlphaGenome 2 from Google DeepMind predicts how a single change in DNA plays out in one specific type of cell, from heart muscle to immune cells. The first version only saw whole tissues, so variants that act in just one kind of cell could be missed. On a map of 28 types of immune cells, the new model found nearly twice as many of the variants that change gene activity, 30% against 16% for the original. In a computer test it also reproduced a recent discovery: a variant behind inflammatory bowel disease that boosts one gene only in certain gut immune cells, leaving other cells largely untouched. Scientists can feed it data from just a few dozen of their own cells, such as immune cells after a vaccine, with no retraining. AlphaGenome 2 is available now for non-commercial research. DeepMind says it is not approved for clinical or diagnostic use. @aipost 🏴
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