Network science and artificial intelligence can identify food molecules that negatively affect health as well as alleviate disease by proposing dietary changes, a Northeastern expert says.

Since the human genome was decoded in 2003, Albert-László Barabási — a distinguished professor of physics at Northeastern University and director of the Center for Complex Network Research — has used network science to map out connections between proteins in human cells. “That’s where network medicine comes in,” Barabási says.

Eventually, network medicine will be able to provide personalized dietary recommendations and treatments, he says, based on an individual’s genetics, diet and disease stage.

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