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Coronavirus: AI steps up in battle against Covid-19Coronavirus: AI steps up in battle against Covid-19By Jane WakefieldTechnology reporter 18 April 2020 Related TopicsCoronavirus pandemic Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage captionCan AI help find a cure for coronavirus?It feels as if a superhuman effort is needed to help ease the global pandemic killing so many.Artificial intelligence may have been hyped - but when it comes to medicine, it already has a proven track record.So can machine learning rise to this challenge of finding a cure for this terrible disease?There is no shortage of companies trying to solve the dilemma.Oxford-based Exscientia, the first to put an AI-discovered drug into human trial, is trawling through 15,000 drugs held by the Scripps research institute, in California. And Healx, a Cambridge company set up by Viagra co-inventor Dr David Brown, has repurposed its AI system developed to find drugs for rare diseases. Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage captionAny possible drug…