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Flashback: How We Can Use AI to Help Improve Medicine

World Changing Ideas

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What Are You Doing That's Different From Farma Form?

Two thirds of small molecule drugs are derived from natural products, and half of which are plant sources. Taxol for breast councer, the active ingredient, and metform an for diabetes, even the active ingrediet, n aspirant, comes from plant sources. What we do is instead expand on the knowledge on that library of plant compounds - what is known as the dark matter of the plant kingdom. And these molecules are super impactful because we coevolved with plants. The reason our bodies work the way they do is because we ate what we ate millions of years ago.

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