MSI Research

Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect Liver Cancer

Liver cancer is an important cause of mortality worldwide. Current screening guidelines recommend liver ultrasound in those at risk so to visually identify a mass.

Spatial genomics analysis using normal human pituitary

Investigating Cushing’s Disease

The pituitary is an endocrine gland, located on the skull base, which consists of five distinct endocrine cell-types.

Illustrates a graphical model used for aster analysis

New Supercomputing Tools to Understand Plant Adaptation

Understanding how plants evolve and adapt to changing environmental conditions is important to managing various agricultural and environmental problems, including assisted migrations of native plan

graphic showing process for RNA sequencing

Using Genetic Sequencing to Fight Tick-Borne Diseases

Hard ticks are considered the second most important vector of veterinary and human diseases.

graphic of catalysis

A New Catalysis Method to Create Sustainable Materials

Many industrial and consumer products are made with a material called acrylic acid.

graph showing phylogenetically blind measures of U.S. wheat diversity, 1919 to 2019

Biodiversity in Modern Wheat Varieties

A concern about modern agricultural practices is that breeders, in search of crops with higher yields, are reducing diversity in those plants.