{"id":239854,"date":"2026-06-28T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/quantum-inspired-ai-could-tailor-patients-cancer-treatment-to-their-entire-molecular-background"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:19:21","slug":"quantum-inspired-ai-could-tailor-patients-cancer-treatment-to-their-entire-molecular-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/quantum-inspired-ai-could-tailor-patients-cancer-treatment-to-their-entire-molecular-background","title":{"rendered":"Quantum-inspired AI could tailor patients\u2019 cancer treatment to their entire molecular background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-inspired-ai-could-tailor-patients-cancer-treatment-to-their-entire-molecular-background.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma\u2014the most common infant cancer, occurring when early nerve cells grow out of control\u2014the path to treatment isn\u2019t simple. Some types of neuroblastoma resolve on their own, while others require aggressive intervention. Researchers have tried matching treatments to patients based on one-gene mutations with limited success. This is because patients\u2019 outcomes depend on their entire molecular background, containing millions or even billions of features, such as DNA and RNA from tissues and blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s much more than just one gene\u2014everything that\u2019s happening in the cells of the patient matters,\u201d said Orly Alter, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Utah\u2019s Scientific Computing &amp; Imaging Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Current artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI\/ML) approaches require massive amounts of training data and, specifically, vastly more patient samples than genetic features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma\u2014the most common infant cancer, occurring when early nerve cells grow out of control\u2014the path to treatment isn\u2019t simple. Some types of neuroblastoma resolve on their own, while others require aggressive intervention. Researchers have tried matching treatments to patients based on one-gene mutations with limited success. This is because patients\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239854","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=239854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}