{"id":2409,"date":"2023-04-03T22:55:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2023-04-03T22:55:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T22:55:42","slug":"deepminds-ai-used-to-develop-tiny-syringe-for-injecting-gene-therapy-and-tumor-killing-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind&#8217;s AI used to develop tiny &#8216;syringe&#8217; for injecting gene therapy and tumor-killing drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers used the AI system AlphaFold to develop a tiny &#8220;syringe&#8221; that can inject proteins into cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2410\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-390x219.png 390w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">These proteins, shown here in a microscopy image, can be used like tiny syringes to inject human cells with specific protein &#8220;payloads.&#8221;\u00a0(Image credit: Joseph Kreitz, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists have developed a molecular &#8220;syringe&#8221; that can inject proteins, including cancer-killing drugs and gene therapies, directly into human cells.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the researchers did it using an artificial intelligence (AI) program made by Google&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/what-is-deepmind\"><u>DeepMind<\/u><\/a>. The AI program, called AlphaFold, previously predicted the structure of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/alphafold-200-million-proteins\"><u>nearly every protein known to science<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/deepminds-ai-used-to-develop-tiny-syringe-for-injecting-gene-therapy-and-tumor-killing-drugs\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/deepminds-ai-used-to-develop-tiny-syringe-for-injecting-gene-therapy-and-tumor-killing-drugs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers used the AI system AlphaFold to develop a tiny &#8220;syringe&#8221; that can inject proteins into cells. Scientists have developed a molecular &#8220;syringe&#8221; that can inject proteins, including cancer-killing drugs and gene therapies, directly into human cells.&nbsp; And the researchers did it using an artificial intelligence (AI) program made by Google&#8217;s\u00a0DeepMind. The AI program, called AlphaFold, previously predicted the structure of\u00a0nearly every protein known to science.\u00a0 Read more here: https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/deepminds-ai-used-to-develop-tiny-syringe-for-injecting-gene-therapy-and-tumor-killing-drugs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}