Alphabet's new company to use AI for drug discovery
3 years, 1 month ago

Alphabet's new company to use AI for drug discovery

The Hindu  

Google's parent, Alphabet, has introduced a new company that will use Artificial Intelligence to accelerate drug discovery, and find cures for some of humanity’s most devastating diseases. "I'm thrilled to announce the creation of a new Alphabet company – Isomorphic Labs – a commercial venture with the mission to reimagine the entire drug discovery process from first principles with an AI-first approach and, ultimately, to model and understand some of the fundamental mechanisms of life," Demis Hassabis, founder and chief executive officer of Isomorphic Labs said in the company blog post. Cutting edge computational and AI methods can help scientists take their work to the next level, and massively accelerate the drug discovery process, according to the blog. AI methods can be used to analyse data, and build powerful predictive and generative models of complex biological phenomena, Hassabis said in the blog.

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AI can help slash healthcare spending by USD 360 billion
2 weeks, 4 days ago

AI can help slash healthcare spending by USD 360 billion

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Artificial intelligence -based healthcare breakthroughs that support and enhance the capabilities of healthcare practitioners have now become a necessity. Kalavathi G V, Executive Director & Head - Global Development Center, Siemens Healthineers, says AI has been predicted to save 5-10% of healthcare spending, which is about USD 200-360 billion. She told TNIE that reducing the administrative burden on frontline …

Better drugs through AI? Insitro CEO on what machine learning can teach Big Pharma
3 weeks ago

Better drugs through AI? Insitro CEO on what machine learning can teach Big Pharma

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Artificial intelligence is changing the way companies do business — helping programmers write code and fielding customer service calls with chatbots. But the pharmaceutical industry is still waiting to see whether AI can tackle its biggest challenge: finding faster, cheaper ways to develop new drugs. Founded in 2018, Insitro is part of a growing field of AI companies …

HHS’ AI plans come into view
1 month, 3 weeks ago

HHS’ AI plans come into view

Politico  

HHS’ AI plans come into view TECH MAZE Califf sees a big challenge in ensuring AI tools do what they say they'll do. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images At HLTH’s health care industry conference in Las Vegas, HHS officials said they’re developing a cross-agency strategic plan to regulate artificial intelligence in health care, aiming to balance its benefits and potential risks. …

AI could help GPs identify patients with the biggest risk of deadly heart conditions, new research shows
3 months, 3 weeks ago

AI could help GPs identify patients with the biggest risk of deadly heart conditions, new research shows

Daily Mail  

Artificial intelligence could help GPs identify those at the most risk of deadly heart conditions, new research shows. Artificial intelligence could help GPs identify those at the most risk of deadly heart conditions For the trial, the AI scanned the records of 82 high-risk patients for symptoms of conditions that lead to heart-related death, including kidney disease and diabetes, by …

The use of AI in drug development | Explained
7 months, 1 week ago

The use of AI in drug development | Explained

The Hindu  

Drug development is an expensive and time-consuming process. The development of two AI-based prediction tools, AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold, developed by researchers at DeepMind, a Google company, and the University of Washington, U.S., respectively, has provided a major scientific breakthrough in the last four years in the area of computational drug development. Second, the tools can only aid a single phase …

Google DeepMind Unveils New AI Model For Drug Discovery: All Details
7 months, 1 week ago

Google DeepMind Unveils New AI Model For Drug Discovery: All Details

News 18  

Google DeepMind has unveiled the third version of its AlphaFold Artificial Intelligence model that aims to help scientists target disease more effectively and create medications. As per Google’s blog post and a paper published in the journal Nature “the AlphaFold 3 is a revolutionary model that can predict the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules with unprecedented accuracy.” Researchers …

The tools helping scientists up the rate at which they find new drugs
8 months ago

The tools helping scientists up the rate at which they find new drugs

The Hindu  

India is one of the world’s leading manufacturers as well as consumers of antimicrobial drugs. Two research groups working at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, recently identified potential targets for new antimalarial drugs by studying the basic biology of Escherichia coli bacteria and the human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum. In the last decade, Dr. Reddy’s group has …

AI medical research applications set to improve rapidly
8 months, 1 week ago

AI medical research applications set to improve rapidly

China Daily  

An examiner checks the results made by the new AI model. Wearable technology AI is also an area predicted to offer new applications in the near future, and elsewhere in healthcare logistics, it is expected that AI will also be able to reduce hospital waiting times dramatically. Algorithms were used to scroll through existing databases of drugs, including more than …

Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development

The Economist  

Listen to this story. Trained to find patterns that extend across large bodies of disparate data, AI systems can discover relationships within those data that have implications for human biology and disease. Biology can be thought of as “an information processing system, albeit an extraordinarily complex one” By finding patterns humans had not thought to look for, or had no …

New ChatGPT-like GenAI model to design new drugs to treat disease: Details
10 months, 2 weeks ago

New ChatGPT-like GenAI model to design new drugs to treat disease: Details

India TV News  

A team of scientists are reportedly developing a new ChatGPT-like generative artificial intelligence model which could design new drugs for treating disease. DrugAI, trained on data from the comprehensive public database BindingDB, can generate unique molecular structures from scratch, and then iteratively refine candidates, ensuring finalists exhibit strong binding affinities to respective drug targets -- crucial for the efficacy of …

India is at a pivotal moment in its health-care journey
1 year, 3 months ago

India is at a pivotal moment in its health-care journey

The Hindu  

In the last few years, India has steadily become a strong voice for various critical issues. India’s expertise in highly specialised areas such as organ transplants, cardiology, oncology and more has made the country a fast-growing destination for medical value travel, not just for the price but also for the speed of access and the sheer quality of care. Additionally, …

Experts hail AI in health care
1 year, 5 months ago

Experts hail AI in health care

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Experts in medical sciences hailed the role of artificial intelligence in revolutionising the field of medicine and treatments, at the fifth edition of an event titled IMA-TSCON at AIG Hospitals on Saturday. Prof. Joseph Sung, senior vice president and dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, was among the dignitaries present at the IMA-Hyderabad North …

SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING | Will AI help us beat superbugs?
1 year, 6 months ago

SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING | Will AI help us beat superbugs?

Hindustan Times  

Drug-resistant microbes, better known as superbugs, are pervasive in hospitals and clinics. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and McMaster University, Ontario, is using deep learning — a kind of AI that attempts to simulate the way the brain works by learning from large data sets — to identify promising chemical compounds. Since the chemical universe …

Scientists use AI to discover new antibiotic against deadly hospital superbug
1 year, 6 months ago

Scientists use AI to discover new antibiotic against deadly hospital superbug

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. However, developing new antibiotics against A baumannii using conventional chemical screening trials has been challenging …

AI may be on its way to your doctor’s office, but it’s not ready to see patients
1 year, 7 months ago

AI may be on its way to your doctor’s office, but it’s not ready to see patients

LA Times  

What use could healthcare have for someone who makes things up, can’t keep a secret, doesn’t really know anything, and, when speaking, simply fills in the next word based on what’s come before? The companies want their AI to take notes for physicians and give them second opinions — assuming they can keep the intelligence from “hallucinating” or, for that …

Op-Ed: AI’s real potential for lethal toxicity
2 years, 8 months ago

Op-Ed: AI’s real potential for lethal toxicity

LA Times  

In February 2017, officials suited up to check for toxins at the airport terminal where Kim Jong Un’s half brother was killed with VX nerve agent. Although the report’s authors say some expertise is still needed to manufacture powerful toxins, adding AI to the field of drug discovery has dramatically lowered the technical threshold required for chemical weapon design. I …

New AI tool can help treat Covid-19 patients globally: Study
3 years, 3 months ago

New AI tool can help treat Covid-19 patients globally: Study

India Today  

A team of international researchers has developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict how much extra oxygen a Covid-19 patient might need during hospital care. "Federated learning has transformative power to bring AI innovation to the clinical workflow," said Professor Fiona Gilbert, from the University of Cambridge in the UK, who led the study. "Usually in AI development, when …

Using AI to fight COVID-19 may harm disadvantaged groups
3 years, 9 months ago

Using AI to fight COVID-19 may harm disadvantaged groups

The Hindu  

March 19, 2021 12:03 pm | Updated 12:08 pm IST Companies worldwide have devised methods in the past year to harness the power of big data and machine learning in medicine. But experts from the University of Cambridge raise questions on ethical use of AI as they see the technology to have a tendency to harm minorities and those from …

London AI lab DeepMind claims breakthrough that could accelerate drug discovery
4 years ago

London AI lab DeepMind claims breakthrough that could accelerate drug discovery

Firstpost  

If scientists can predict the shape of a protein in the human body, they can determine how other molecules will bind or physically attach to it Some scientists spend their lives trying to pinpoint the shape of tiny proteins in the human body. DeepMind, a lab owned by the same parent company as Google, said Monday that its system, called …

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