Allen integrated cell: Using AI to look inside human cells

Using artificial intelligence, scientists 

 have created a tool that lets anyone visualize what the structures inside a cell look-a-like, even when you only have images of the outside. The Allen Integrated Cell, available for free online, creates 3D visualizations that could help researchers better understand disease.
This cell tool focuses on human stem cells, or cells that haven't yet turned into, say, muscle cells or heart cells. If we better understand the inner workings of a healthy cell, then we can better understand what goes wrong when it turns into something like a cancer cell, says Greg Johnson, a scientist at the Allen Institute. 
First, the scientists genetically engineered cells so that their internal structures (like the mitochondria) glowed. Then, they took thousands of photos of these glowing cells and fed them to machine learning algorithms. The algorithms learned to predict the shape and location of structures in any cell, not just the ones it had already seen or the ones that had various other structures labeled.
The creation of the interactive tooland learning platform is indeed important as it will let researchers study cells more effectively and cheaply.