The Future in Medicine Started in a Bakery?

[Jim Koepke]

Interesting story on how an A.I. device made to tally pastry for bakers in Japan turned in to a medical tool.

It seems it can also be used for sorting wire bundles in airplanes or parts on an assembly line.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-pastry-ai-that-learned-to-fight-cancer

The story as at other sources if you cannot access the New Yorker search > A.I. system for baker sorts cancer cells <

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[Bill Dufour]

I thought penicillin started at a moldy fruit stand?
Bill D
wiki says
in 1943, a mouldy cantaloupe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantaloupe) in a Peoria, Illinois (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois) market was found to contain the best strain of mould for production

[Jim Koepke]

I thought penicillin started at a moldy fruit stand?
Bill D
wiki says
in 1943, a mouldy cantaloupe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantaloupe) in a Peoria, Illinois (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois) market was found to contain the best strain of mould for production

It may be the best strain of the mould was found at a fruit stand.

Penicillin was discovered before 1943. Information about penicillin from Wikipedia:


Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming as a crude extract of P. rubens.[4] Fleming's student Cecil George Paine was the first to successfully use penicillin to treat eye infection (ophthalmia neonatorum) in 1930. The purified compound (penicillin F) was isolated in 1940 by a research team led by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the University of Oxford. Fleming first used the purified penicillin to treat streptococcal meningitis in 1942.

Penicillin is a very common mold. Some varieties of penicillin are used in cheese making.

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