Google's health research uses AI models to speed drug discovery and disease detection

Google says its AlphaFold model helped researchers at the Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, screen 30,000 compounds for Chagas disease activity and identify two FDA-approved drugs for possible repurposing.

In a Nature Cancer study across 125,000 women, a mammography screening system caught 25% of historically missed interval cancers and could reduce specialist reading workloads by up to 40%.