Cambridge team uses Co-Scientist to find molecular switches in cross-species disease transmission
Finding the molecular switches behind new infectious diseases
What happened
University of Cambridge professor Clare Bryant used Google DeepMind's Co-Scientist to study how pathogens such as influenza trigger sepsis when transmitted across species. Among the hypotheses the tool generated and ranked was a protein she had not previously considered, leading the research to a specific amino acid. Bryant says experiments that would normally take two to three years to identify the precise amino acid could now be completed in six months. Her team is building cell lines with amino-acid mutations to test the hypothesis.
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