Its founders call it a Google search or ChatGPT for DNA. In essence, users can ask their genetics direct questions.

Why am I not responding well to my medication?

Why do I have high testosterone?

Why do I have recurring cases of gout?

But instead of receiving broad, sometimes unnecessarily disconcerting information from a website like WebMD — potential diagnoses ranging from a common cold to cancer — the platform generates answers based precisely on the user’s genetics.

This is Bystro , an artificial intelligence genomics research assistant being honed in the Boston Seaport space of MassChallenge , a nonprofit that aims to support and accelerate entrepreneurship.

The AI startup combines elements of Ancestry.com, search engines and primary health care into comprehensible takeawa

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