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Harvard's new free AI tool could help treat Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and even cancer
AI can do more than just write your essays - a new model is advancing drug discovery for hard-to-treat diseases.
In a summary of the study, which was partially federally funded, the authors explain that usual drug discovery approaches tackle one protein at a time, and work in cases such as kinase inhibitors -- drugs that prevent cancer cells from expanding by blocking certain proteins -- but can fall short when the disease involves interactions between multiple signaling pathways and genes. According to the post, this could speed up the process, streamline research efforts, and reduce instances in which complex diseases with multiple pathways, such as cancer, evade drugs. Last year, for example, AI models' tendency to hallucinate actually helped Stanford researchers find new drug compounds at an exponentially faster rate than they could have with basic computing alone.
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