The march of deep learning in medicine continues

Originally posted on The Horizons Tracker. I've looked before at the growing role AI is playing in the development of new medicines, whether it's understanding which compounds to test, or even in the creation of virtual models to test drugs in. At the forefront of this trend is Insilico Medicine, who you may remember I wrote about recently after they'd developed a system that can guess your age accurately just by looking at you. They have certainly been busy, and recently published a paper looking at the role of deep learning in predicting the impact drugs might have on the body. The study saw a neural network trained up to predict the therapeutic use of a huge array of drugs.