The Only Detox You'll Ever Need

Dr Ken Yeong discusses the future of drugs such as re-purposing them for other medical uses and to look at innovating existing drugs.

Dr Carlo Maley, an evolutionary and cancer biologist, discusses how nature has already beaten cancer, and the possibility of using those methods in humans.

Modern machine learning is great for helping scientists sort through huge data sets. But it’s less useful for things that require inference or reasoning – both vital to the scientific process. One group of scientists are now trying to fix this problem with a new kind of machine learning. This new approach aims to find the underlying algorithmic models that interact and generate data, to help scientists uncover the dynamics of cause and effect.