Special report: pandemic has boosted venture dollars across health AI
Most people have read the Wizard of Oz or watched the film but few go as far as to remember every line. Now it is possible to have it literally woven into your DNA as the Esperanto-language version of Frank Baum’s 1900 classic just received a novel re-release. All 150 pages have been imprinted into a double strand of DNA.
Where DNA strands become damaged, University of Texas at Austin’s algorithm is trained to retrieve the text from other areas of code, demonstrating how models could learn to fix gaps in medical information.
And so society is poised to advance, by harnessing the connection between biotech and data-driven artificial intelligence (AI). If there is a coronavirus vaccine unearthed at breakneck speed, then here too AI will have been crucial.
As Covid-19 ensnared China, it was AI from internet group Baidu that allowed its secondary RNA sequences to be predicted 120…
