Artificial intelligence succeeded in discovering anti-aging drugs

Discovering new drugs is expensive and time-consuming. But artificial intelligence has recently been able to find three anti-aging drugs that are able to prevent aging-related diseases and reduce the speed of aging by removing old and dysfunctional cells.

According to The Conversation, researchers from the University of Edinburgh and the IBBTEC-CSIC National Research Center in Santander, Spain fed samples of data from anti-aging drugs and non-aging drugs to artificial intelligence models so that the computer could learn the differences between these drugs. Eventually 4340 molecules It was given to the artificial intelligence model and after five minutes the results were obtained.

The computer could 21 compound molecules to identify those who had the highest chance of coping with aging. Scientists say that if all those 4,340 molecules were to be tested in the experiment, it would take at least a few weeks of time and 50,000 euros of capital.

Discovering and verifying the effectiveness of an anti-aging drug by artificial intelligence

In the next step, these volunteer drugs were tested on healthy and disabled cells (or zombies) and it was found that the three combined molecules are able to remove the disabled cells and do not harm the majority of healthy cells. Further, further tests showed that one of these three drugs named “OleandrinIt is more effective than others.

After confirming the effect of these drugs on zombie cells, scientists are now testing these three drugs in human lung tissue samples. They hope that In two years To be able to show the results of their efforts.

Researchers say that the potential of using this combined approach in drug discovery is very high. Artificial intelligence can increase the work speed of chemists and biologists by receiving sufficient and high-quality information and lead to the development of drugs for incurable diseases.

Researchers in anti-aging treatments are usually looking for mechanisms to remove dysfunctional cells. These cells are the cells that survive, but lose their ability to reproduce.