{"id":8552,"date":"2024-09-12T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/?p=8552"},"modified":"2024-09-13T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:58:08","slug":"ais-drug-revolution-part-2-new-uses-for-old-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/2024\/09\/12\/ais-drug-revolution-part-2-new-uses-for-old-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"AI’s Drug Revolution, Part 2: New Uses for Old Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second in a three-part series from Medscape Medical News on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on drug discovery and development.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Part 1<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>is about AI’s role in designing speedier, more effective clinical trials.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Part 3<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>reports on AI’s ability to create new proteins from scratch, streamlining the creation of protein-based therapeutics.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scientists the world over are racing to end Alzheimer’s disease. Over\u00a0<\/span>two decades<\/a>, they’ve conducted hundreds of clinical trials and spent\u00a0<\/span>billions<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in funding. Yet only a\u00a0<\/span>handful<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>of Alzheimer’s\u00a0<\/span>medications<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>have been approved.<\/p>\n

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But what if there were drugs already on the market that could help treat or even prevent this devastating disease?<\/p>\n

If such drugs exist, geneticist\u00a0<\/span>Gyungah R. Jun, PhD<\/a>,<\/u>\u00a0<\/span>is determined to find them \u2014 using AI.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of this article by Sarah Amandolare <\/span>on Medscape HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second in a three-part series from Medscape Medical News on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on drug discovery and development.\u00a0Part 1\u00a0is about AI’s role in designing speedier, more effective clinical trials.\u00a0Part 3\u00a0reports on AI’s ability to create new proteins from scratch, streamlining the creation of protein-based therapeutics. Scientists the world over are racing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8565,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}