Meet Aashritha Penumudi, the 17-year-old Virginia student who created stalled ribosomes in the lab and trained AI on breast-cancer data; its predictions matched what she saw under the microscope
Aashritha Penumudi (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA) By combining laboratory biology with machine learning, a 17-year-old student from Virginia has gained new insights into how protein production can go wrong in cancer cells. Aashritha Penumudi, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, studied a…