Aliquots - Research Briefs Archive — Page 1 of 86

August 3, 2026

Study explores diagnostic utility of ocular ultrasound in the emergency department

The study found that point-of-care ultrasound had a high sensitivity for detecting vitreoretinal pathology, but had only moderate accuracy and a low sensitivity for detecting other ocular pathologies that may require prompt intervention.

July 2, 2026

Team’s prediction task compares GPT-4o with classic machine learning

Large language models have been functionally opaque. Seeking some transparency, a team undertook a comparison with traditional machine learning for predicting which patients would discontinue their home cancer medications.

June 17, 2026

Team’s post-op kidney injury risk model could aid prevention

The machine learning-derived model was 88% accurate in ranking preoperative patients according to risk for postoperative acute kidney injury.

May 29, 2026

AI technique improves cancer gene discovery for breast and prostate cancer

The artificial intelligence model Enformer was retrained with tissue-specific datasets; this “transfer learning” approach outperformed the base model in identifying disease-associated genes.

April 7, 2026

Sickle cell disease heightens risk for precancerous blood disorder

These findings shed light on disruptions in normal blood cell development (hematopoiesis) that may be shared by sickle cell disease and clonal hematopoiesis.

April 2, 2026

Study identifies potential noninvasive blood marker for Crohn’s disease activity

One immune cell signaling molecule was increased in active versus inactive Crohn’s disease in both endoscopic and histologic activity assessments, suggesting it could serve as a potential noninvasive marker of disease activity.