Its founders call it a Google search or ChatGPT for DNA. In essence, users can ask their genetics direct questions.
Why am I not responding well to my medication?
Why do I have high testosterone?
Why do I have recurring cases of gout?
But instead of receiving broad, sometimes unnecessarily disconcerting information from a website like WebMD — potential diagnoses ranging from a common cold to cancer — the platform generates answers based precisely on the user’s genetics.
This is Bystro , an artificial intelligence genomics research assistant being honed in the Boston Seaport space of MassChallenge , a nonprofit that aims to support and accelerate entrepreneurship.
The AI startup combines elements of Ancestry.com, search engines and primary health care into comprehensible takeawa