Health IT Analytics February 16, 2021
A machine learning model can detect drugs already on the market that could potentially treat COVID-19.
Machine learning could help detect existing drugs that could help fight COVID-19, particularly in elderly populations, a study published in Nature Communications revealed.
One of the many major challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic has been finding effective treatments for the virus. The rapid spread of coronavirus created an immediate need for comprehensive therapies – a massive undertaking for scientists and drug developers.
“Making new drugs takes forever,” said Caroline Uhler, a computational biologist in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society, and an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. “Really, the...
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