healthcare
The system in your body responsible for fighting infections and keeping you healthy.
A handheld device doctors use to listen to your heartbeat.
What is a stethoscope?
A type of AI that learns patterns from data to make predictions.
What is machine learning?
The “energy currency” molecule used by cells to store energy.
What is ATP?
A common imaging technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to visualize soft tissues.
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
Small devices worn on your wrist to track steps, sleep, and heart rate.
What are fitness trackers or smartwatches?
A computer system modeled on the human brain and nervous system.
What is neural network?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Treatment that uses powerful drugs to kill fast-growing cancer cells, controlling cancer growth.
What is chemotherapy?
Machines in hospitals that scan the body using X-rays to produce cross-sectional images.
What is a CT scanner?
This kind of data includes heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen levels.
What is a neuron?
A technique that uses a gene to treat, prevent or cure a disease or medical disorder.
What is gene therapy?
A process of determining the physical location of genes on chromosomes.
What is gene mapping?
The AI network type often used for analyzing images, like tumor scans.
What is a convolutional neural network (CNN)?
A process by which stem cells differentiate into specialized cell types in a developing embryo.
What is cellular differentiation?
A medical procedure to remove a small sample of cells or tissue from the body for examination.
What is biopsy?
This tool can edit DNA with high precision.
What is CRISPR/Cas9?
Google’s AI that predicts protein structures.
What is AlphaFold?
A principle in population genetics describing non-evolving populations.
What is Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?