AI Boosts Medical Research: A New Way to See Inside a Mouse

A Cleveland company and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) just got a big $2. 5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. This money will help them use AI to make medical research faster and more detailed. The team, led by CWRU professor Susann Brady-Kalnay and BioInVision Inc. , wants to use AI to create detailed images of an entire mouse in just hours. This isn't just about taking pictures. It's about tracking specific cells, like cancer cells or immune cells, to see how they move and behave. This could help doctors understand how diseases work and how to treat them better. BioInVision is a company that started at CWRU. They make special tools for looking at tiny things, like cells. One of their tools, called CryoViz, uses a microscope, robots, and smart software to take super detailed 3D pictures of cells. This is a big deal because finding specific cells in the body is really hard. They can hide and move around, making it tough to target them with treatments. Right now, if researchers want to track cells, they have to cut millions of tiny slices of tissue. That takes a lot of time and work. But with BioInVision's new AI, they might be able to do the same thing in just hours. This could help scientists figure out where cells go and how to make treatments work better. The grant is part of a program that supports small businesses working with universities. This helps both the company and the university make money and grow, which is good for the local economy.