Health and Computers

We all live stressful lives. Demanding careers, screaming children, tricky relationships, climate anxiety, global conflicts, and more... When you feel stressed, the physiological stress response in your body is activated. Neurons in your brain fire rapidly, releasing a cascade of signalling molecules to activate your flight or flight response, before another set of signals will tell your body to relax and recover. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? But what if that feeling of stress persists? Come and learn more about stress – the good, the bad, and the ugly! And how the ability to control and limit your stress exposure might keep you healthier for longer.

With the rise of AI around the world, there is a growing interest in using machine learning techniques in the pharmaceutical industry, but there are also a host of unique challenges and questions to ask. Can machine learning replace visual inspections and discern if vials are contaminated or broken? Can it develop new ideas for drug discovery or track side-effects in existing drugs in the market? Where does trustworthy data come from to make the model? How should these new techniques be regulated by governments? Where would you draw the line?