Treatments have been designed exclusively by AI (artificial intelligence).
- Thousands of therapeutic antibodies have been manufactured from scratch by AI algorithms.
- These new antibodies have been designed to try to defeat Covid-19, the flu and even certain cancers.
- “AI is at the heart of the medicine of the future with assisted operations, remote patient monitoring, intelligent prostheses, or even personalized treatments thanks to the cross-checking of data (big data)…”, indicates Inserm.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining ground in all fields, including drug design.
A new study published in biorxiv.org indicates that thousands of therapeutic antibodies have been manufactured from scratch by AI algorithms. These new antibodies have been designed to try to defeat Covid-19, the flu and even certain cancers.
“Although only a small fraction of these molecules have been shown to be effective in laboratory testing, this opens the way to many new therapeutic possibilities,” noted Health Magazine.
How do drug-producing AI algorithms work?
How do drug-producing AI algorithms work? Once they are educated on real molecules, they become able to produce molecules adapted to the shape of pathogens.
“The algorithm is similar to those which make it possible to mass produce these ultra-realistic images that we have seen flourishing in recent months on the networks. It was specifically trained on thousands of real molecules, to guess the geometric shape What does a protein take based on its chemical formula? explain to France Info Hervé Poirier, editor-in-chief of the scientific magazine Epsiloon.
“Because this is the key point for an antibody: by presenting a shape perfectly complementary to that of part of a virus or a bacteria, it succeeds in sticking to it and neutralizing it. The problem is is that it is very difficult to predict, through theoretical calculation, the shape of a given molecule. This AI succeeds. Better still, it can find a chemical formula corresponding to the desired shape. Truly astonishing.” he adds.
“AI is at the heart of the medicine of the future”
An antibody is a defense substance produced by certain white blood cells in reaction to a foreign substance. The antibody recognizes it as not belonging to the individual and destroys it. There are five different types of antibodies: IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE, IgD (according to the order of their respective quantities in the body).
“AI is at the heart of the medicine of the future with assisted operations, remote patient monitoring, intelligent prostheses, and even personalized treatments thanks to the cross-checking of data (big data)…”, indicates Inserm. “However, it is essential that the general public understands how these systems work to know what they do and especially what they do not do,” completes the research center.
