{"id":152271,"date":"2022-12-09T01:26:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T07:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/how-ai-found-the-words-to-kill-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2022-12-09T01:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T07:26:40","slug":"how-ai-found-the-words-to-kill-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/how-ai-found-the-words-to-kill-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"How AI found the words to kill cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-ai-found-the-words-to-kill-cancer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using new machine learning techniques, researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF), in collaboration with a team at IBM Research, have developed a virtual molecular library of thousands of \u201ccommand sentences\u201d for cells, based on combinations of \u201cwords\u201d that guided engineered immune cells to seek out and tirelessly kill cancer cells.<\/p>\n<p>The work, published online Dec. 8, 2022, in <i>Science<\/i>, represents the first time such sophisticated computational approaches have been applied to a field that until now has progressed largely through ad hoc tinkering and engineering cells with existing\u2014rather than synthesized\u2014molecules.<\/p>\n<p>The advance allows scientists to predict which elements\u2014natural or synthesized\u2014they should include in a cell to give it the precise behaviors required to respond effectively to complex diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using new machine learning techniques, researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF), in collaboration with a team at IBM Research, have developed a virtual molecular library of thousands of \u201ccommand sentences\u201d for cells, based on combinations of \u201cwords\u201d that guided engineered immune cells to seek out and tirelessly kill cancer cells. The work, published online Dec. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}