Training Computers To Sniff Out Leukemia: Eighteen-year-old Brittany Wenger, another teen competitor at the Intel Science Fair, used her computer know-how to create an algorithm that can look for patterns in a patient’s genetic profile to spot signs of a nasty form of cancer called mixed-lineage leukemia. This isn’t Wenger’s first foray into harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for medicine: She previously created a computer program that analyzes breast tissue samples to spot signs of breast cancer Brittany Wenger teaches computers to recognize the signs of canc