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AI-enabled study shows mechanics of aging and disease progression

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Researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Gero and Genome Protection Inc., recently published new work in Nature Communications in which the artificial neural network applied by the research team precisely projected the health condition of an aging mouse with the help of a single variable, which was termed dynamic frailty indicator (dFI) that accurately characterizes the damage that an animal accumulates throughout life.

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