Apply information technology in the treatment of specific diseases

Researchers at the University of Manchester, UK, have installed a sophisticated computer algorithm on a robotic (laboratory) device to predict the best combination of available drugs. in the treatment of specific diseases.

"You want to find the best combination of drugs available in the treatment of a specific disease, but you can not make millions of tests," said Douglas Kell, lead researcher.

"What you need to do is: identify a potential drug set, conduct the test, and collect the results, from which you again identify another set of potential drugs. In the end you get the best combination of the available drugs, in the treatment of specific diseases. "

Researchers have applied the technique in the course of prescribing medications to treat inflammation (which occurs after a stroke), which causes severe damage and even death.

Patients are treated more effectively by the optimal combination of several drugs with smaller doses, thus reducing the possibility of drug poisoning (due to overdose).

Each phase of the process requires trials of 50 drugs, using a robotic (laboratory) device to analyze drugs contained in test tubes and to deliver Exists drugs that inhibit the activity of cells (the cells will produce a certain chemical, when inhibited).

Once these experiments have been completed, complex computer algorithms will use the results as a basis for selecting the next "potential drug pool" and the process will start again. After 10 stages, the algorithms will predict the best combination (from the existing drugs in the treatment of specific diseases).

Potential customers can operate the "commercial robot device" quite easily (because the manufacturer has already integrated complex computer algorithms into the system). Each stage can be completed in at least one day.