Database to boost cancer treatments

Weather forecasting science is being used to predict the most effective ways to fight cancer in a ground-breaking new development.

Techniques borrowed from Britain’s Met Office have been incorporated into an “artificial intelligence” database containing 1.7bn experimental results.

Just as weather forecasters make their predictions using powerful computers to crunch information from a myriad sources, scientists tapping into the CanSAR database will be guided to the most effective drugs and treatments.