Predictive medicine articles within Nature

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  09 February 2022 | Open Access

  Early prediction of preeclampsia in pregnancy with cell-free RNA

  Analyses of circulating cell-free RNA (cfRNA) in blood samples from pregnant mothers identify changes in gene expression that could be used in liquid biopsy tests to identify and monitor individuals who are at risk of preeclampsia.

  • Mira N. Moufarrej
  • , Sevahn K. Vorperian
  •  & Stephen R. Quake

• Article
  26 May 2021 | Open Access

  Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning

  Swarm Learning is a decentralized machine learning approach that outperforms classifiers developed at individual sites for COVID-19 and other diseases while preserving confidentiality and privacy.

  • Stefanie Warnat-Herresthal
  • , Hartmut Schultze
  •  & Joachim L. Schultze

• Article | 29 April 2020

  Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China

  Modelling of population flows in China enables the forecasting of the distribution of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the identification of areas at high risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission at an early stage.

  • Jayson S. Jia
  • , Xin Lu
  •  & Nicholas A. Christakis

• Letter | 29 June 2015

  T-cell exhaustion, co-stimulation and clinical outcome in autoimmunity and infection

  CD8 T-cell exhaustion, although a negative prognostic indicator during persistent infections, is shown to be associated with a good outcome in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

  • Eoin F. McKinney
  • , James C. Lee
  •  & Kenneth G. C. Smith