Intro: It's time for Ask A Scientist.  I'm Tanesha Nicole and today I'm talking with Dr. Gary Gibbons, Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute about the possibilities of data science. 
TN: Dr. Gibbons, why are you so excited about data science at NHLBI? 
GG:  Data science and artificial intelligence are becoming powerful new tools that can help us fulfill our mission to better diagnose and prevent and treat heart, lung, and blood disorders. 
TN: How so? 
GG: One of the things that artificial intelligence can do is look at patterns and then predict what might come next. That ability to predict what's next can be really useful in medicine, in anticipating a problem. 
TN: Looking to the future, how might this be used?  For example, in pregnancy? 
GG: During the first trimester, we could predict what's going to happen six months later as to whether they have the risk of pregnancy complications. 
Outro: For more about data science, visit nhlbi.nih.gov