How AI spots disease in your DNA.

A lecture in the AI to Advance Medicine - Dean's Lecture Series at Weill Cornell Medicine, titled "Human Somatic Evolution, from New Measurements to Clinical Impact". It is given by Dan A. Landau, MD, PhD, Chair of Systems and Computational Biomedicine and the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor of Systems and Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. He describes how technologies developed in his lab read the record of somatic mutations in the body's tissues, from single-cell sequencing to cell-free DNA in the bloodstream, and how machine learning on plasma detects disease and predicts clinical outcomes. He closes by outlining his department's AI vision, including building datasets that do not yet exist, training physician-scientists fluent in both biology and computation, and contributing to Weill Cornell's broader AI initiative.