Using artificial intelligence and a microscopic camera, researchers at Georgia Tech have been able to demonstrate how tens of thousands of round worms, used as a model organism in genetic studies, can be autonomously and automatically screened for changes in morphology.  They also point out: “Our automated technique can be generalized to anything that relies on detecting a morphometric – or shape, size or brightness difference. . . . .  to anything that can be detected visually, and we think this could be expanded to studying many other problems related to learning, memory, neuro-degeneration and neural developmental diseases that this worm can be used to model.”   MORE