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Navigating the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy

NIH is updating its Public Access Policy to ensure free, immediate access to taxpayer-funded research. Starting July 1, 2025, researchers must submit Author Accepted Manuscripts to PubMed Central without embargo, regardless of authorship or funding.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model for Prostate Cancer Shows Feasibility in Clinical Setting

Think AI is still out of reach for most clinicians? A new NCI study examines the feasibility of bringing AI to the clinic, using a publicly available platform and an AI-assisted model for detecting prostate cancer on MRI scans.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Code of Conduct Offers Guide for Cancer Researchers and Data Scientists

Explore how these principles serve as guideposts for developing, deploying, and improving AI systems.

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Submit Your Abstract for the Eleventh Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop (CAFCW25)

CAFCW25 is an NCI-supported opportunity to collaborate with experts who drive cancer research and innovation. For a chance to present at this workshop, submit an abstract!

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Study Helps Further Define the Role for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Detecting Breast Cancer

What’s the best role for AI in screening for breast cancer? This study, partially funded by NCI, helps define that role by looking at how well AI performed in finding hard-to-detect cancers.

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NCI Seeks Input on Benchmarks for Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Research and Care

NCI wants your input on how to develop strong and useful benchmarks for artificial intelligence (AI) in cancer research. These benchmarks will help guide the development of AI tools that can improve how we prevent, detect, treat, and manage cancer.

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Introducing DrBioRight 2.0—A Bioinformatics Chatbot for Large-Scale Analysis

Learn more about this NCI-funded tool that enables researchers like you to explore protein-centric, cancer omics data.

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Researchers Use AI-based Modeling to Assess Treatment and Predict Survival from Glioblastoma

Want to use your data science skills to find better cancer treatments? See how these NCI-funded researchers working with artificial intelligence (AI) used information from a survival model to refine treatment for glioblastoma.

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NCI Podcast Examines How Wearable Devices Correlate Exercise Levels with Cancer Risk

An NCI study reveals a connection between physical activity levels and cancer risk based upon data collected by researchers from wrist-worn sensors. Such devices are one of many examples of how big data science technologies can significantly drive the progress of cancer research.

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Cell2Cell Helps Researchers Visualize Relationships Between Tumor and Immune Cells

Learn about this NCI-supported, comprehensive visual and interactive system for analyzing cell-to-cell interactions in 3D image data.

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