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28 Jun

DeepMind Taps Into AI To Speed Up Drug Discovery Process

Of the many tropical diseases that have been plaguing the poverty-stricken population of underdeveloped and developing countries, Leishmaniasis is one. Its fatal form– Visceral Leishmaniasis, affects more than three lakh people every year. However, drug discovery and development for the disease has been slow for reasons including lack of capital, the complexity of the procedure,…

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02 Dec

AlphaFold Puts DeepMind On The Map Again With A Breakthrough That Was 50 Years In The Making

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“It would take longer than the age of the known universe to enumerate all possible configurations of a typical protein by brute force calculation.” Cyrus Levinthal. Inside every cell of your body, billions of tiny machines are hard at work carrying oxygen, letting your eyes detect light, and making your muscles move. These microscopic machines…

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