Teaching AI to Predict What Cells Will Look Like Before Running Any Experiments

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If you’ve ever tried to guess how a cell will change shape after a drug or a gene edit, you know it’s part science, part art, and mostly expensive trial-and-error. Imaging thousands of conditions is slow; exploring millions is impossible.

A new paper in Nature Communications proposes a different route: simulate those cellular “after” images directly from molecular readouts, so you can preview the morphology before you pick up a pipette. The…