{"id":163371,"date":"2023-05-05T03:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/ai-could-run-a-million-microbial-experiments-per-year-says-study"},"modified":"2023-05-05T03:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T08:23:21","slug":"ai-could-run-a-million-microbial-experiments-per-year-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/ai-could-run-a-million-microbial-experiments-per-year-says-study","title":{"rendered":"AI could run a million microbial experiments per year, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLQipJBgjNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence system enables robots to conduct autonomous scientific experiments\u2014as many as 10,000 per day\u2014potentially driving a drastic leap forward in the pace of discovery in areas from medicine to agriculture to environmental science.<\/p>\n<p>Reported today in <i>Nature Microbiology<\/i>, the research was led by a professor now at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>That <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/artificial+intelligence+platform\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence platform<\/a>, dubbed BacterAI, mapped the metabolism of two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microbes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microbes<\/a> associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/oral+health\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">oral health <\/a>\u2014with no baseline information to start with. Bacteria consume some combination of the 20 amino acids needed to support life, but each species requires specific nutrients to grow. The U-M team wanted to know what amino acids are needed by the beneficial microbes in our mouths so they can promote their growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial intelligence system enables robots to conduct autonomous scientific experiments\u2014as many as 10,000 per day\u2014potentially driving a drastic leap forward in the pace of discovery in areas from medicine to agriculture to environmental science. Reported today in Nature Microbiology, the research was led by a professor now at the University of Michigan. That artificial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163371","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}