From uncertainty to optimism: AI is reshaping the battle against cancer
For years, the debate around AI has swung between excitement and anxiety, but researchers are now putting this technology to work on humanity's toughest challenge the mysteries of cancer.
At the centre of one such effort is Debarka Sengupta, associate dean of Innovation, Research and Development, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), who is using AI and genomics to detect cancer earlier, understand how tumours behave and help doctors choose treatments tailored to individual patients.
Rather than viewing cancer as a single disease or a mutation in one gene, Sengupta's laboratory studies it as a complex biological system by combining molecular biology, genomics, single-cell analysis, microfluidics and AI.
"The aim is to detect weak cancer signals that are of...







