🇺🇸 영어 원문
Scientists are using AI to accelerate the search for treatments for neurological conditions that may be hiding in plain sight.
Researchers at the UK Dementia Research Institute in Edinburgh analyse patient data including voice recordings and eye scans, as well as lab-grown brain cells, to identify whether existing drugs could be repurposed to treat conditions such as motor neurone disease (MND).
The scientists hope that by using algorithms to detect patterns of disease and predict suitable medicines, effective treatments could be found in “years rather than decades”.
That hope is shared by trial participant Steven Barrett, who was diagnosed with MND 10 years ago. Steven had been planning his active retirement after a long and decorated career in the civil service, when he began to notice a numbness in his leg. A few years later he was diagnosed with MND – a degenerative neurological condition which does not yet have a cure.
“MND is a horrible disease, it strips you of who you are,” he tells the BBC at his home in Alloa, Scotland. “It rips any sense of future that you may feel that you had planned for yourself – all that goes.”
His family also did not see it coming, Steven says – showing photos of himself at work, at parties and at his son’s wedding. But he describes the trials as a “bright light” of hope for himself and others with MND or similar conditions.
One such trial, MND-SMART, sees several drugs tested at the same time as opposed to one group given a treatment and another a placebo. “For me the research is much more than taking a tablet – it’s taking a tablet with the intention of delivering outcomes, that may or may not help me but help others,” he says.
The Institute is also building a database of people with conditions including Parkinson’s, Dementia and MND. Clinicians are gathering iris scans, voice recordings and harnessing AI to crunch through and curate masses of data to spot signs of change that may be early indicators of future problems.
🇰🇷 한국어 요약
이 기사는 인공지능 (AI) 이 뇌 질환 치료제 개발 속도를 획기적으로 높일 수 있다는 내용을 다루고 있습니다. 영국 치매 연구소는 환자의 음성 녹음, 눈 스캔, 실험실에서 배양한 뇌 세포 데이터를 분석하여 기존 약물을 새로운 질환에 활용 (repurpose) 할 수 있는지 연구 중입니다. 특히 루게릭병 (MND) 환자인 스티븐 배럿 씨의 사례를 통해, AI 와 데이터 분석을 통해 치료제를 찾는 과정이 수십 년에서 수 년으로 단축될 수 있는 희망을 보여줍니다. 환자들은 단순히 약을 먹는 것을 넘어, 미래 세대를 위한 연구에 참여한다는 의미에서 큰 희망을 느끼고 있습니다.
🔑 핵심 단어 (Vocabulary)
- accelerate – 가속하다 – Scientists are using AI to accelerate the search.
- neurological – 신경계의 – …treatments for neurological conditions…
- repurpose – 용도를 변경하다 – …existing drugs could be repurposed…
- algorithm – 알고리즘 – …using algorithms to detect patterns…
- degenerative – 퇴행성의 – …a degenerative neurological condition…
- indicators – 지표 – …early indicators of future problems.
- curate – 선별하다/관리하다 – …crunch through and curate masses of data…
- outcomes – 결과/성과 – …delivering outcomes, that may or may not help me…
🔗 원문 링크
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrp3zzzp71o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss