Can AI help fight covid-19?
4 years, 8 months ago

Can AI help fight covid-19?

Live Mint  

To find future treatments for infections, we might have to look back at the past. The very same treatment from the 1920s is now being used to treat modern bacterial infections resistant to many drugs. In the nearly two decades since SARS, AI could be instrumental in the fight against the virus: A Canadian AI company, Blue Dot, was amongst the first organizations to reveal the COVID-19 outbreak in late December. Insilico Medicine in Hong Kong used AI algorithms to design six new molecules that could halt viral replication. AI and machine learning are also being used to model how infectious diseases spiral into major outbreaks and become pandemics.

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Vaccines are terrific, but where are the COVID-19 treatments?
3 years, 6 months ago

Vaccines are terrific, but where are the COVID-19 treatments?

LA Times  

Since the early days of the pandemic, we’ve all wanted to know when and how it will end. That research has yielded three authorized vaccines — so far — that are highly effective not just against the original virus but also against its many variants, including the highly transmissible Delta variant. Mehta spoke to The Times about which medicines are …

COVID-19: Artificial intelligence in the pandemic
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19: Artificial intelligence in the pandemic

The Hindu  

We tend to talk about artificial intelligence as if it were a thing of the future, but AI is already all around us — as the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated. "People thought the beta variant was going to spread around the continent and overwhelm our health systems, but with AI we were able to control that," says Jude Kong, who …

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 …

What will it take to stay one step ahead of a mutating COVID-19?
3 years, 10 months ago

What will it take to stay one step ahead of a mutating COVID-19?

Al Jazeera  

As new variants of COVID-19 rage around the world, we examine how scientists are fighting to be able to anticipate them – and how this will translate into government policy at home. “What we’re not doing now is looking at how many people are going to the grocery store, or on public transport,” Cobey says – ie, epidemiologists still only …

'Didn't Help Much in Pandemic': Sundar Pichai Says AI will Take 20 Years to Come into Play
3 years, 11 months ago

'Didn't Help Much in Pandemic': Sundar Pichai Says AI will Take 20 Years to Come into Play

News 18  

Confident about Artificial Intelligence playing a much bigger role in tackling future pandemics, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said on Friday these are still the early days of AI and its real potential will come into play in 10-20 years. But these are still the early days of AI, and the real potential will come …

A vaccine might not be enough – we need Covid-19 treatments that work
4 years ago

A vaccine might not be enough – we need Covid-19 treatments that work

The Independent  

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AI, virtual reality can help fast track COVID-19 vaccine, experts say
4 years, 1 month ago

AI, virtual reality can help fast track COVID-19 vaccine, experts say

Hindustan Times  

From helping in optimising the yield of therapeutics to training staff for setting up large-scale manufacturing sites, cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality can be used to fast track COVID-19 vaccine development worldwide, experts say. “It helps customers to build manufacturing facilities much faster, saving a year or even more than a year to build the manufacturing …

‘IICT is now working on a new antiviral drug for COVID-19’
4 years, 3 months ago

‘IICT is now working on a new antiviral drug for COVID-19’

The Hindu  

CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology has been one of the first indigenous labs to gear up to combat COVID-19 by scouring existing anti-virals to treat the infection and has been successful in providing the vital Active Pharma Ingredient to Indian companies for making affordable drugs. Why is it difficult to come out with a precise drug for a virus like …

AI Uncovers a Potential Treatment for Covid-19 Patients
4 years, 8 months ago

AI Uncovers a Potential Treatment for Covid-19 Patients

Wired  

Late one January afternoon, British pharmacologist Peter Richardson ran out of his home office and told his wife, “Got it!” She asked what he was talking about and offered a cup of tea. Using the software, Richardson had identified a rheumatoid arthritis drug that might dampen some of the most severe effects of the new virus, an illness now known …

These companies are racing to roll out COVID-19 treatments
4 years, 9 months ago

These companies are racing to roll out COVID-19 treatments

CNN  

New York CNN Business — Big Pharma companies and biotechs are racing to come up with an effective treatment for the Covid-19 novel coronavirus. Many other companies are also working on vaccines, including small biotechs Moderna, Novavax and Inovio as well as Big Pharma firm Pfizer, which is partnering with Germany’s BioNTech. But making and testing new vaccines may not …

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