SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Artificial intelligence is being used for vehicles, computer engineering and many other industries. Now scientists are also beginning to use AI to pinpoint the best ways to treat cancer. "For the first time, we are going to be able to use artificial intelligence to be able to do millions, if not billions, of experiments.
All in the computer, before we do the first experiment trying to kill cancer cells," said Dr. Deepak Srivastava, president of the Gladstone Institutes. We got a look inside the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco where teams are working together, using artificial intelligence to understand what experiments would be most impactful to kill cancer cells.
Srivastava says they believe this approach will save lives. "We will be able to take somebody's cancer, that so far has been untreatable, and be able to engineer their own immune cells in ways that it will specifically kill their cancer cell," Srivastava said. MORE: Historic UCSF Asian American cancer study gets $12.
45 million grant; participants needed According to the American Cancer Society, skin cancer is by far the most common of all types of cancers in the U.S. Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths for both men and women.
These two types are the main focus for this research . "Part of what causes cancer is that our cells are failing to correct errors that occur randomly in our cells so there are many random errors in a cancer cell in a tumor. Only a few.