Human Limitations Could Prevent Us From Advancing in Science. AI Could Help.

Three times a day I take a drug called levodopa. I take it because my brain does not produce enough dopamine, without it my hands and feet shake and I have difficulty getting my body to do what I want it to do. These are symptoms of Parkinson's disease and mean that many of my dopamine producing neurons have died. But, thanks to levodopa, I can feed my brain synthetic dopamine. It is an incredible little drug that we discovered to be naturally produced in the broad bean plant, pictured here.