Drug Discovery World
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Verge Genomics’ potential amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) treatment VRG50635 is one of the first drugs to enter clinical trials that was entirely discovered and developed using an AI-enabled platform 6. Automation is also being applied to genomics sample preparation, an area that requires particular robustness and scalability.
Drug Discovery World
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
In 2020, a team of researchers from MIT used a machine-learning platform to identify a new antibiotic compound which was shown to kill certain strains of bacteria, including resistant-bacteria. The teams made use of the fact that many bacteria produce antibiotic peptides to fight each other.
Drug Discovery World
MAY 4, 2023
The magic bullet was the drug, while the specific mark it would reach in the syphilis causing bacteria to eliminate the disease was the drug target. The drug target for Penicillin is a protein that helps bacteria to synthesise its cell wall. Big data handling and machine learning made progress by leaps.
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