April 24, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

April 24, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence (AI)ChemistryDrug analoguesDrug designingDrug development
Abhor Gupta Karthik Raman

PURE: An AI Tool Makes Designing Safer, More Effective Medicines Easier

An AI tool developed by IIT Madras has made discovery of highly safe, effective drug analogues easily possible. In the case of the FDA-approved cancer drug Sorafenib, starting from its original structure, PURE produced hundreds of thousands of possible analogues, and then narrowed them down using basic drug-likeness filters. A manageable group of candidates that were selected exhibited docking scores comparable to, and in some cases, superior to those of Sorafenib

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Artificial intelligence (AI)CancerCancer diagnosisCervical cancerDiagnostics
Prasad Ravindranath

An AI-powered, lightweight App offers hope for early-stage cervical cancer diagnosis

An AI-powered, lightweight, diagnostic, web-based App — CerviSpectraDiag — developed by researchers from IIT Kharagpur and KIIT University for early detection of cervical cancer has an accuracy of 84.73%. It offers diagnosis in near real time while maintaining privacy and data security as processing of spectral data of cervical tissue happens at the device level

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Artificial intelligence (AI)MRIOsteoarthritis
Sourabh Ghosh

Early detection, severity grading of knee osteoarthritis using AI, novel imaging scoring method: a pilot study

A newly developed Artificial Intelligence-powered system is capable of automatically analysing MRI scans, accurately detecting the severity of knee osteoarthritis within a limited time, and even predicting potential disease progression if timely treatment is not undertaken

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Artificial intelligence (AI)Communicable diseaseHealthTuberculosis (TB)
Prasad Ravindranath

Why are States asked to use untested AI tool for TB screening?

The Central TB Division informed the States in end-January this year to “consider utilising” the DeepCXR tool only when the

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Artificial intelligence (AI)ResearchScience
Prasad Ravindranath

Using AI to classify neem fruits based on azadirachtin content

Researchers at the School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi have developed an Artificial Intelligence-based tool to predict the

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Artificial intelligence (AI)Communicable diseaseHealthPublic HealthTestingTuberculosis (TB)
Prasad Ravindranath

Chest X-ray interpretation using AI can detect more TB cases

In 2021, WHO recommended the use of CAD products that use AI to automate the interpretation of digital chest X-rays for TB screening and triage in people older than 15 years

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Artificial intelligence (AI)CancerHealthNon-communicable diseasesResearchScience
Prasad Ravindranath

Machine learning-based model can determine if skin cancer can spread

Using machine learning of 17 genomic signatures, researchers from IIIT Delhi and CSIR-IMTECH have developed a webserver called CancerSPP that

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Artificial intelligence (AI)Diagnostic toolDiagnosticsHealth
Prasad Ravindranath

IIITD-AIIMS team’s model can predict shock 12 hours in advance

A team led by IIITD-AIIMS researchers has developed a machine-learning algorithm to detect and predict shock using a single photo

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Artificial intelligence (AI)AsthmaHealthScience
Prasad Ravindranath

Delhi researchers use AI to diagnose asthma, identify subtypes

Studying the total NMR spectra of metabolites present in exhaled breath of children with asthma, IGIB and AIIMS researchers have

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Artificial intelligence (AI)CancerCervical cancerDiagnostic toolHealthOral cancerResearchScience
Prasad Ravindranath

Diagnosing early-stage cervical cancer using artificial intelligence

Using an artificial intelligence-based algorithm that uses scattered light data from tissues, researchers from IISER Kolkata and IIT Kanpur have

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