Researchers at Purdue University and Houston Methodist Research Institute are touting a novel strategy for developing a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is widely used as a vaccine against TB, but the researchers say it has a variable protection against neonatal and adult pulmonary TB, with protection ranging from 0% to 80% among infants.…
Researchers aim to speed drug discovery with human-understandable ML models
Researchers at Purdue University have devised chemical reactivity flowcharts and novel machine learning models that could accelerate drug discovery. Although the use of machine learning for drug development has grown, researchers’ ability to understand machine learning recommendations has been limited. In a paper published in Organic Letters, Purdue professor Gaurav Chopra noted that the machine…