Scientists call for allout, global effort to create an AI virtual cell
Dec 12, 2024
Noting that recent advances in artificial intelligence and the existence of large-scale experimental data about human biology have reached a critical mass, a team of researchers from Stanford University, Genentech, and the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative says that science has an "unprecedented opportunity" to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create the world's first virtual human cell. Such a cell would be able to represent and simulate the precise behavior of human biomolecules, cells, and, eventually, tissues and organs.