An AI just discovered three new anti-ageing senolytic compounds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is very good at trawling through data and modelling scenarios at speed, and that’s going to accelerate everything from drug discovery and beyond. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
IBM wants to build a 10,000 Qubit quantum computer within 10 years
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers are already proving themselves to be the world’s most powerful computers, and IBM wants to push them further. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
AI is helping design new drugs from scratch using text prompts and Zero Shot design
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is increasingly designing from scratch using zero shot learning and in the future doctors could just use text prompts to design new drugs. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Scientists are using AI to dream up amazing new unnatural enzymes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Enzymes are crucial to all living things and to many human processes and activities, so revolutionising how we create them will change the world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Researchers used AI to discover a powerful new Cancer drug in 30 days
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As humans and AI continue to crack the secrets of biology one day we could see AI create instant cures and treatments for diseases. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Inspired by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 biotech labs are now using generative AI to create new drugs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting better at creating and innovating all manner of things – and now it’s proteins and drug treatments. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
AI is getting great at simulating and designing proteins and drugs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Proteins essentially make the life work, and by understanding them faster we can now create cures and treatments for diseases faster. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
This new chemical programming language could revolutionise digital chemistry
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By converting chemistry into a chemical programming language it opens up a huge range of new possibilities. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In June, the US government purchased the vast majority of world’s...
Slowly but surely AI is helping eliminate the need for animal testing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Animal testing is controversial, on the one hand it helps get drugs to market and on the other kills and harms millions of animals, but AI be a solution. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...
Researchers AI tool predicts how drugs will affect the human body
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We can create vaccines faster than ever before, but human trials still take a long time, this could help accelerate drug approvals. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Today, as we...
Tumour-on-a-Chip invention could accelerate new cancer treatments
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today if you want to see how effective a drug is at killing Cancer you have to rely on human trials, but that could soon be a thing of the past. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the...
Researchers 3D printed brain tumors to accelerate discovery of new treatments
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printing human organs on demand is one thing, but now 3D printed tumours can help researchers develop better cancer cures faster. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. So far we’ve 3D printed everything from buildings, cars, and...
DNA printers get ready to move from printing sentences to paragraphs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more companies develop their own synthetic DNA products this new innovation will lower costs and increase the speed of manufacturing new genetic products. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In a time when our ability to create...
World’s fastest supercomputer gets recruited to help develop a Covid-19 vaccine
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Summit crunched through thousands of compounds in days to find compounds that could be used in a COVID-19 vaccine. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Technology is arguably playing a greater role in the COVID-19 pandemic we’re all...
A revolutionary AI built by MIT just discovered a new powerful antibiotic drug
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The anti-biotic crisis means that we need new approaches to finding and developing new anti-biotics, and AI has just proven itself to be a powerful new weapon in that fight. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. So called...
World’s first vaccine entirely designed by an AI heads to human trials
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is a lot of hype about using AI to help design and discover new drugs, but we are starting to see results. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Researchers often spend billions of dollars and countless hours developing new...
An AI designed 30,000 drugs in 21 days and came up with winners
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Drug companies are trying to find new ways to discover new blockbuster drug treatments faster, and AI is beginning to answer the call. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I wrote about an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that...
Virtual reality is helping scientists discover new drugs faster
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Discovering new drugs is a laborious and expensive process, but VR is helping make it significantly faster and cheaper. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Virtual Reality (VR), the same technology that’s revolutionising video games and cancer treatments by...
IBM’s AI learns how to predict the outcomes of chemical reactions
WHY THIS MATTERS BRIEF Chemistry is the basis and foundation of everything on Earth and being able to predict the outcomes of new chemical reactions will help industries create new compounds and new materials faster than ever before. By thinking of atoms as letters and molecules as words an...
