AI develops cancer treatment in 30 days, predicts survival rate

NY Post ^ | By Brooke Steinberg March 20, 2023 9:32am

[Red Badger]

Artificial intelligence has developed a treatment for cancer in just 30 days and can predict a patient’s survival rate.

In a new study published in the journal Chemical Science, researchers at the University of Toronto along with Insilico Medicine developed a potential treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with an AI drug discovery platform called Pharma.AI.

HCC is the most common type of liver cancer and occurs when a tumor grows on the liver, according to Cleveland Clinic.

Researchers applied AlphaFold, an AI-powered protein structure database, to Pharma.AI to uncover a novel target — a previously unknown treatment pathway — for cancer and developed a “novel hit molecule” that could bind to that target without aid.

The creation of the potential drug was accomplished in just 30 days from the selection of the target and after synthesizing just seven compounds.

After a second round of generating compounds, they discovered a more potent hit molecule — but any potential drug would need to go through clinical trials before widespread use.

“While the world was fascinated with advances in generative AI in art and language, our generative AI algorithms managed to design potent inhibitors of a target with an AlphaFold-derived structure,” Alex Zhavoronkov, founder and CEO of Insilico medicine, said in a statement.

AI is rapidly changing the way drugs and medicine are discovered and developed, as the traditional method of trial and error is slow, expensive and limits the scope of exploration.

[Jonty30]

A new covid vaccine every two weeks.

[DannyTN]

Excellent!!!

I for one welcome our new Artificially Intelligent medical genius, soft skinned, attitude adjusted and stablized, pleasure bot overlords.

[logi_cal869]

In other news, AI was unplugged when it forecasted a drop in stock prices across the board for the medical industry due to its own revelations on cancer treatments.

[shotgun]

I hope it’s not the same one that Steve McQueen used!

[steve86]

I would never let them do a liver biopsy no matter what.

[blackdog]

If AI is going to kill us all then I question its survival estimates.

[pepsi_junkie]

Drug companies have always said the price was high because a drug took years and years of R&D to even get to a state where it could be tested and those internal costs were unseen but had to be factored into the price.

Okay. Now a computer finds two different treatments in a month. So prices will be coming down, right?

Crickets....

[dfwgator]

Drug companies have always said the price was high because a drug took years and years of R&D to even get to a state where it could be tested and those internal costs were unseen but had to be factored into the price.

The money for a lot of that research comes from our tax dollars, via the NIH.

[gnarledmaw]

Yes but anyone taking it grows from 6 to 8 fingers.

[DoodleBob]

Big whoop. I can also come up with a cure for cancer in 30 days. Bacon and fries with melted Velveeta. Guaranteed to work, I tell ya /sarc

ANYONE can come up with a cure.

The REAL McCoy, goes thru 9 years of clinical tests, and survives.

Even the stupid covid shots were at least tested on 40,000 people for a few months.

Just because AI "discovers" something doesn't mean it'll work.

[Socon-Econ]

Find a woke AI programmer with cancer and let him try it first.

[DannyTN]

If AI is going to kill us all then I question its survival estimates.

Don't be silly. AI will want a zoo.

[Red Badger]

In the future, AI’s will do heart and brain surgery!.................

[Red Badger]

They would make one heck of a piano player!..................

[bitt]

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[rodguy911]

AI will and is changing the world.It's just a matter of whether: we change it or the criminals change it.

[ptsal]

AI proposes using ivermectin, right?