Tech & Innovation
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Genomics has broad applications, and for now, broad limitations
A scientist-turned-patient finds that access issues cloud the technology's potential.
![Alice Park and Jennifer Doudna seated on stage for a session talk at the Aspen Ideas Health Conference.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HPH-Aspen-Doundna-f2.jpg)
Inside CRISPR’s gene editing revolution
Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for inventing a powerful gene editing technology. What comes next for CRISPR?
![Book cover: Our Bright Future with Robots: The Heart and the Chip by Daniela Rue and Gregory Mone. The cover is orange-gold with white and black text. A heart with microchip lines extending outward is in the center.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HarvardPublicHealth_heart-chip_rus-mone_f.jpg)
Do robots have a bright future in public health?
The head of the MIT Computer Science Lab talks about robots in medicine, employment, and more.
![Digital illustration: Diabetic retinopathy, ophthalmoscopic diagnosis image. Yellow, data-like dots radiate around it.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HPH_AI-Eye_KFN_F.jpg)
As AI-based eye exams prove their worth, lessons for future tech emerge
Implementation is tricky, but the tech can have big benefits for both patients and providers.
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Lake Nona forum spotlights the future of health
AI in health care, the perils of processed foods and other advances, and more from an invite-only confab
![Three illustrations on a light grey background show uses of artificial intelligence in real-life settings: a mother holds an infant and communicates with a chatbot, a hand holds a phone and gets diagnostics of a Petri dish, and a medical monitor detects potential cancer spots with tech from a blue device.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HPH_AI_Innovations_Health-Care_Public-Health_F.jpg)
Three ways AI is improving public health
Tackling maternal mortality, superbugs, and colorectal cancer
![Illustration: An orb with shapes and symbols indicating artificial intelligence swirls with lines and information. Figures and families interact with screens of translated AI into words and data. The illustration is shades of blue, purples, and grey.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HPH_LLM_misinformation_Artificial-intelligence_f.jpg)
Misinformation doesn’t have to get the last word
AI can support the truth, too.
![Editorial Cartoon: A female clinician speaks to a male colleague. She says "The patient wants a second opinion from an A.I."](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HPH_AI-editorial-cartoon-f.jpg)
Artificial opinion
An editorial cartoon by Natasha Loder
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TikTok is a tool for mental health, not a threat to it
TikTok isn't just a tween fad. It's a powerful platform for information transmission.