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For over a century, scientists knew that abnormalities in centrosomes were linked to cancer. But these structures are so small and complex that studying them across entire tumors was nearly impossible.

A new AI system analyzed 330,000 centrosomes from breast cancer patients and discovered that what researchers treated as one abnormality was actually two distinct processes.

One of them was linked to more aggressive tumors and worse survival.

This is where AI becomes genuinely transformative in science: not by giving faster answers to old questions, but by making previously invisible patterns measurable.