Carissa Wong, PhD

Carissa Wong is a freelance reporter who writes stories on health, technology, nature and the environment. She was formerly a staff writer at New Scientist and continues to write for New Scientist, Live Science, Nature and more. She holds a PhD in cancer immunology from Cardiff University in the UK, and earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Bristol in the UK.

Articles by Carissa Wong, PhD

A graph showing how scGPT groups cells, each represented as a dot, into cell types, shown as clusters of dots of the same color.

A New AI Tool Predicts Gene Expression in a Single Cell

Carissa Wong, PhD | Aug 21, 2023 | 4 min read

An artificial intelligence tool, scGPT, can identify cell types, predict the effects of disrupting genes, and pinpoint which genes interact with each other.