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Vanessa Smer-Barreto, Research Fellow, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh

AI finds drugs that could fight ageing and age-related diseases

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Finding new drugs – called “drug discovery” – is an expensive and time-consuming task. But a type of artificial intelligence called machine learning can massively accelerate the process and do the job for a fraction of the price.

My colleagues and I recently used this technology to find three promising candidates for senolytic drugs – drugs that slow ageing and prevent age-related diseases.

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