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University of Cambridge starts first human trial of a vaccine containing an AI-designed super-antigen

It aims to protect against future animal-borne coronaviruses.

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We are in for a wild ride, and this is just the beginning: 'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have trialled what they describe as the world’s first AI-designed vaccine component in humans.

The vaccine uses an AI-designed “super-antigen” intended to train the immune system against a broad family of coronaviruses, including existing Covid variants and animal coronaviruses that could potentially cause future pandemics.

Instead of designing a vaccine around one current virus strain, researchers fed AI genetic data from many known coronaviruses. The AI then designed an antigen meant to trigger immune protection across the whole virus family, even if the virus mutates or jumps from animals to humans.

The first human trial involved 39 people and mainly tested safety. The immune response was described as modest, but the result is still seen as promising because it shows that an AI-designed vaccine antigen can be tested in humans.

A larger study with around 200 people will now examine how well the vaccine actually trains the immune system.

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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrpggegwe0o

Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

We are in for a wild ride, and this is just the beginning: 'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have trialled what they describe as the world’s first AI-designed vaccine component in humans.

The vaccine uses an AI-designed “super-antigen” intended to train the immune system against a broad family of coronaviruses, including existing Covid variants and animal coronaviruses that could potentially cause future pandemics.

Instead of designing a vaccine around one current virus strain, researchers fed AI genetic data from many known coronaviruses. The AI then designed an antigen meant to trigger immune protection across the whole virus family, even if the virus mutates or jumps from animals to humans.

The first human trial involved 39 people and mainly tested safety. The immune response was described as modest, but the result is still seen as promising because it shows that an AI-designed vaccine antigen can be tested in humans.

A larger study with around 200 people will now examine how well the vaccine actually trains the immune system.

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Rand@rand_longevity

@kimmonismus I actually trust an ai vaccine

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A Eye Bubble@A_Eye_Bubble

@kimmonismus It was not designed by AI. There's 1000s of steps and years of red tape. There's a lot of human review you are ignoring. Ai helped. Big friggin deal. Welcome to 2024.

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

@zazmic_inc You mean like phase 2 and 3 trial? Yes, fair. That’s a bottleneck

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Yann Kronberg@zazmic_inc

yeah, and the part that gets me is that the two sides move at totally different speeds now: design in days but validation in years. Even if AI speeds up the front, the trial queue just keeps growing behind it.

I wonder if that pressure will eventually force trials to change, or we will just have to keep on waiting? It isn't so different than what happens to good AI projects in companies, either.

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Vanar@Vanarchain

@kimmonismus This is the shift from reactive medicine to proactive, AI designed immunity. That’s a big step.

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Insight Hugh💡@ProductInsightH

@kimmonismus I wonder if the AI charged them a "Success Tax" for designing the antigen. Hopefully, it’s a one-time API fee and not a recurring subscription for every person vaccinated

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Paweł J Lisowski@PawelJLisowski

@kimmonismus This is why i dont get people staunchly against AI. Whatever societal problems emerge we can fix, but the posibilitied we unlock for all of humanity thanks to it will he limitless

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Liam Debono@leeloumt

@kimmonismus @BernieSanders will say that its Skynet plotting to silently kill us 🤣

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Willz@willzxone

@kimmonismus This is one of those stories that sounds boring today and potentially historic in hindsight.

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Nifty@nifty0x

@kimmonismus Awesome. If it really works, dealing with future virus mutations could become a lot easier

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Bruce Lambert@bruce_lambert

@Techmeme @JamesTGallagher Why do you not post links to your own site. It’s a user-hostile practice.

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未知@luyun0120

@kimmonismus 用AI做研究，最大的坑是把方法当目的。跑模型容易，得出真知难。

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Rawlala@Rawlala1

@kimmonismus cancer exists but scientist still out there searching cure to covid 💀

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Eckhart_Diestel@EdDie9550691087

@kimmonismus I generally like your content. As a physician, I have to object in this case. You are posting about a subject you have not examined critically. The phrases “human trial” and “modest immune response” in a study of 39 people provide no meaningful scientific information whatsoever.

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Lorde V@LordeV

@rand_longevity @kimmonismus And AI doctors. Looking forward to the future.

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Dano 🚀@danotastic

@kimmonismus This is when exponential technological progress happens, when AI is used by the scientists and engineers.

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Bonsai 🌳@bonsaixbt

@kimmonismus Also, an AI that decided to turn people into zombies by changing their immune system with this vaccine

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SVN7R@SewersOfSociety

@kimmonismus Vibe-vaccine

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AI Mastery Guide@aiseomastery

@kimmonismus Designing against the whole virus family instead of one strain is the part that makes this fundamentally different from how vaccines have always been made

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