Can AI develop personalised cancer vaccines in 48 hours?

While addressing the White House, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said that artificial intelligence (AI) can detect cancer, help develop a vaccine as well as in 48 hours make that vaccine available for the people.

Ellison said, “Once we gene sequence that cancer tumour, you can then vaccinate the person and design a vaccine for every person that vaccinates them against that cancer. That mRNA vaccine, you can make that robotically, again using AI, in about 48 hours”.

“So imagine, early cancer detection, the development of a cancer vaccine for your particular cancer aimed at you and having that vaccine available for you in 48 hours -- this is the promise of AI and the promise of the future,” he added.

The gathering where he spoke involved SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

What are mRNA vaccines?

mRNA stands for messenger ribonucleic acid vaccines, which carry a single-stranded molecule carrying genetic code from a DNA. These vaccines help bodies train to fight off bacteria or viruses by triggering the immune system.

When the mRNA vaccine is introduced into the body, it learns how to fight the bacteria or virus, so when someone is exposed to that bacteria or virus in a natural way, it already knows how to fight.

One of the advantages of mRNA vaccine includes targeted operation without changing the DNA of the host.

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