AI Is Now Treating Cancer (And This Begins An Exciting Era For Modern Medicine)

A Deep Dive Into How AI Helped Humans Discover A Novel Drug That Treats Liver Cancer

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A groundbreaking research published in the Chemical Science journal has just taken humanity a step ahead in the field of modern medicine.

The team of researchers used AlphaFold2, a protein-folding AI model developed by Google DeepMind, for this discovery.

They used this model to discover a novel drug that can be used to treat Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a deadly form of liver cancer that lacks effective treatments today.

This story is a deep dive into the process of this drug’s discovery from scratch.

It is divided into the following subheadings to make it easy to understand from first principles —

1. An Introduction To How Cancers Work

2. An Introduction To Developing Cancer Treatments

3. An Introduction To Proteins

4. The Challenge In Figuring Out The 3D Protein Structures

5. An Introduction To How The AlphaFold Models Work

6. A Deep Dive Into Cancer Drug Discovery Using AI