August 12, 2024 by Yale School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA Yale School of Medicine team reports in a new study that an artificial intelligence (AI) model was able to reliably diagnose people living with Marfan syndrome from a simple facial photograph. Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder, affecting about 1 in 3,000 people,...
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress Credit: Kodali et al. (2022) The Piezo-type mechanosensitive ion channel component 2, or PIEZO2, is a protein coding gene that has been linked to mechanically-activated (MA) cation channels, which connect mechanical forces to biological signals. The PIEZO2 encoded protein can quickly adapt MA currents in somatosensory neurons, which are responsible...
