AI Promises Life-Changing Alzheimer's Drug Breakthrough
An AI breakthrough could lead to a silver bullet for Alzheimer’s and offer a faster, cheaper way to find life-changing drugs.
If Verge Genomics co-founder Alice Zhang is right, the kind of technology that allows you to search the web for “Japanese baseball jerseys” and find a $49.99 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters shirt will help discover a cure for Alzheimer’s.
And that’s just the beginning. Her could make traditional drug research in a lab seem more outmoded than an Amish wagon on an eight-lane highway. “Verge moves drug discovery from the lab to the computer,” Zhang says. Today, most new Big Pharma drugs have gone through a painstaking process of lab research and trials that went on for 10 to 15 years and cost as much as $2 billion. Verge seems to be
