An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant to one of the currently-used drugs. This discovery, led by researchers at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, was aided by Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’.
A technique for reducing the number of infectious malaria parasites in whole blood could significantly reduce the number of cases of transmission of malaria through blood transfusion, according to a collaboration between researchers in Cambridge, UK, and Kumasi, Ghana.
Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’ could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society journal Interface. ̽»¨Ö±²¥team has demonstrated the success of the approach as Eve discovered that a compound shown to have anti-cancer properties might also be used in the fight against malaria.
Screening method created to expedite the development of new drugs in the fight against tropical diseases such as malaria and African sleeping sickness.
A ground-breaking imaging system to track malarial infection of blood cells in real time has been created by a collaboration catalysed by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Physics of Medicine Initiative.
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