{"id":237518,"date":"2026-05-20T22:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-atlas-reveals-hidden-whole-body-damage-caused-by-obesity"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:06:18","slug":"ai-atlas-reveals-hidden-whole-body-damage-caused-by-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-atlas-reveals-hidden-whole-body-damage-caused-by-obesity","title":{"rendered":"AI atlas reveals hidden whole-body-damage caused by obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-atlas-reveals-hidden-whole-body-damage-caused-by-obesity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obesity affects far more than metabolism and fat storage. It alters immune activity, nerve structure, and tissue organization across multiple organ systems, increasing the risk of diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, neuropathy and cancer. Yet despite these systemic effects, researchers have lacked tools capable of studying disease-associated changes across the entire body in intact organisms and at high resolution.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Prof. Ali Ert\u00fcrk, Director of the Institute for Biological Intelligence (iBIO) at Helmholtz Munich and Professor at the LMU, has now developed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-technique-reveals-body-wide-cellular.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">MouseMapper<\/a>, a suite of foundation-model-based deep-learning algorithms designed to analyze whole-body biological imaging data. The framework automatically segments 31 organs and tissue types while quantitatively mapping nerves and immune cells throughout the body, enabling comprehensive multi-system analysis in intact mice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMouseMapper is built on a foundation model, which means it generalizes far beyond the data it was originally trained on,\u201d says Ying Chen, co-first author of the study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10535-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity affects far more than metabolism and fat storage. It alters immune activity, nerve structure, and tissue organization across multiple organ systems, increasing the risk of diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, neuropathy and cancer. Yet despite these systemic effects, researchers have lacked tools capable of studying disease-associated changes across the entire body [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}