Artificial Intelligence May Offer Cancer Cure
“Berg’s model is based on precision medicine which is getting the right treatment to the right patient at the right time,” Narain said. “In order to truly understand the disease and how to treat it, Berg analyzes the full biological make-up of the cell. This includes the genome, proteome, lipidome, metabolome. We also look at mitochondrial function, oxidative states, and ATP production, to look at how the cell is behaving.”
Analysis of cancer cells typically takes years – but the beauty of artificial intelligence is that it works faster than any human possibly could.
Could we be just two or three years away from curing some forms of cancer? Niven Narain, the president of Berg, a small Boston-based biotech firm, says that may very well be the case.
The company takes samples of blood, urine and tissue from cancer patients and compares those samples with those from healthy patients. Over 14 trillion data points are created from this process. All of that data is then fed into artificial intelligence systems.
With funding from billionaire real-estate tycoon Carl Berg as well as from Mitch Gray, Narain, a clinical scientist by training, and his small army of scientists, technicians, and programmers, have spent the last six years perfecting and testing an artificial intelligence platform that he believes could soon crack the cancer code, in addition to discovering valuable information about a variety of other terrible diseases, including Parkinson’s.
All that analysis is so complex and broad that it would take humans a lifetime to complete it. With the help of AI, all that data is crunched in the span of days or weeks, buying precious time in the drug creation process. The result is a targeted treatment, tailored to the individual, based on their own body’s makeup.
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