This Zhang “spatial ecotype” paper that just made CNN/Jake Tapper is fascinating. The bigger shift isn’t just AI itself — it’s the idea that tumors may behave more like adaptive ecosystems with recurring spatial organizational states rather than random collections of malignant cells. AI/spatial biology models are increasingly looking at: – cellular neighborhoods – immune localization – stromal architecture – signaling environments – and multicellular organization across tissue. Feels like oncology is moving away from isolated pathway thinking and toward systems-level organizational biology. That may also explain why areas involving immune trafficking and chemokine signaling (including pathways like CCR5) are attracting growing attention in tumor microenvironment research. https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/science/video/ai-cancer-medical-breakthrough-science-lead-jake-tapper?cid=ios_app submitted by /u/KuneneRiver
Originally posted by u/KuneneRiver on r/ArtificialInteligence