Artificial Intelligence
and Agent Technology
Lecture 8
Robot Scientist Discovers
Potential Malaria Drug
The machine called Eve is packed
with innovations for finding drugs
faster
Image copyright University of Manchester &
Scientific American
Computer scientist Ross King
from the University of
Manchester in England and his
team say Eve found a chemical
called TNP-470 effectively targets
an enzyme that is key to the
growth of Plasmodium vivax, one
of the parasites that causes
malaria