UK Dementia Research Institute uses AI to find MND treatments
Researchers at the UK Dementia Research Institute are using AI to find new treatments for neurological disorders like motor neuron disease (MND).
By analyzing things like voice recordings, eye scans, and lab-grown brain cells, their algorithms can spot disease patterns and suggest which existing drugs might help.
This tech could shrink drug development from decades to just a few years, pretty game-changing.
Robotics and AI screen 1,500 drugs
The team uses robotics and AI to test drugs on brain cells grown from patients' blood samples.
Professor Siddarthan Chandran says this approach lets them explore around 1,500 existing drugs for new uses, opening doors that used to be shut.
Trials like MND-SMART are giving real hope to patients by testing multiple drugs at once, making the process faster and more flexible than ever before.