Ganymed Pharmaceuticals to Present at the 32nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

A team headed by ICREA researchers Salvador Aznar Benitah and Fran Supek concludes that care should be taken with drugs that inhibit epigenetic factors.

The tissues in our bodies largely are made of fluid. It moves around cells and is essential to normal body function. In people who have glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer, this fluid has a much higher pressure, causing it to move fast and forcing cancer cells to spread. Researchers may have found a solution to stopping this inevitable cancer cell spread.

With machine learning systems now being used to determine everything from stock prices to medical diagnoses, it's never been more important to look at how they arrive at decisions. A new approach out of MIT demonstrates that the main culprit is not just the algorithms themselves, but how the data itself is collected.