How 'artificial intelligence' robots hunt new drugs for crippling nerve disease

Artificial intelligence robots are turbo-charging the race to find new drugs for the crippling nerve disorder ALS, or motor neurone disease. The condition, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, attacks and kills nerve cells controlling muscles, leading to weakness, paralysis and, ultimately, respiratory failure.
About 140,000 new ALS cases are diagnosed a year globally and there is no cure for the disease, famously suffered by cosmologist Stephen Hawking (pictured). / Internet photo
About 140,000 new ALS cases are diagnosed a year globally and there is no cure for the disease, famously suffered by cosmologist Stephen Hawking (pictured). / Internet photo
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