medicines

Robotics & AI

Discover Medicines With the Power of AI: Profluent, Fueled by Salesforce Research and Endorsed by Jeff Dean

Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. “Many drugs — enzymes and antibodies, for example — consist of proteins,” Madani said. Fed into a generative AI model, data about proteins can be used to predict entirely new proteins with novel functions. Other companies and research groups have demonstrated viable ways in which generative AI can be used to predict proteins. And DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, has a system called AlphaFold that predicts complete protein structures, achieving speed and accuracy far surpassing older, less complex algorithmic methods.

Max Chen
March 25, 2024
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Enterprise, Gadgets

Spicing Up Automatic Medicine Dispensers with My Memo Technology

Every few years, a new startup takes a stab at automatic pill dispensers to help with drug adherence and to prevent people from accidentally dosing more than they should. Makes sense: For many of us, as we get older, more and more medicines join the lineup that keeps us ticking along. Unfortunately, memories get fuzzy, and forgetting to take — or doubling up — medicines can have disastrous consequences. The company takes a fresh look at the market, with a good-looking device to keep its users’ medicine intake on track. My Memo is a closed box that makes the medicines inside inaccessible — helpful to prevent casual theft and child safety, for example.