New artificial intelligence tool accelerates disease treatments

A little over a year ago, Joseph Coates was told that he had only one thing left to decide. Did he want to die at home or in the hospital? Coates, who was 37 at the time and lived in Renton, Washington, was barely conscious. He had been struggling for months with a very rare blood disorder called POEMS syndrome, which had left his hands and feet numb, his heart dilated and his kidneys with faults. Every few days, doctors had to drain liters of f…

Doctors told this American man that he was going to die. Then AI saved his life.

Scientists are using AI to search among existing medicines for treatments that work for rare diseases.

New artificial intelligence tool accelerates disease treatments

Researchers have created an AI tool to accelerate the development of new disease treatments and demonstrated its potential by identifying an existing drug with the potential to prevent deadly heart failure.

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UVA researchers develop AI tool to advance modern healthcare

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) -- Scientists at the University of Virginia (UVA) are breaking barriers in the world of Artificial Intelligence and healthcare. 8News spoke with a leader behind the research, Dr. Jeff Saucerman. "We're trying to combine scientific knowledge with AI," he explained. Saucerman said heart failure kills more than 400,000 Americans each year and that this impact is expected to increase by 40% over the next six to eight year…

UVA scientists develop AI tool to accelerate the development of new disease treatments

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have created a computational tool to accelerate the development of new disease treatments.