AI Used to Advance Drug Delivery System for Glaucoma and Other Chronic Diseases

2023-06-08 15:06:13

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Researchers from Wilmer Eye Institute and the University of Maryland used AI models and machine-learning algorithms to predict which components of amino acids that make up therapeutic proteins are most likely to safely deliver therapeutic drugs to animal eye cells.

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