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Emily Blunt bags David Yates' 'Pain Hustlers'

Washington [US], May 13: Actor Emily Blunt will be seen headlining David Yates' directorial 'Pain Hustlers'.


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Pic Courtesy: Emily Blunt Twitter


As per The Hollywood Reporter, 'Pain Hustlers' tells the story of a high school dropout who lands a job with a failing pharmaceutical startup in a Florida strip mall. She catapults the company into the high life and finds herself at the center of a criminal conspiracy with deadly consequences.

Wells Tower has written the script of the project, which will go on floors on August 22. 'Pain Hustlers' is produced by Lawrence Grey through his Grey Matter Productions banner and Wychwood Pictures.


Researchers use AI to analyze large amounts of biological data

Washington [US], May 12: University of Missouri researchers have applied a form of artificial intelligence (AI), previously used to analyze how National Basketball Association (NBA) players move their bodies, to now help scientists develop new drug therapies for medical treatments targeting cancers and other diseases.


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The findings of the study were published in the journal Nature Communications. The type of AI, called a graph neural network, can help scientists with speeding up the time it takes to sift through large amounts of data generated by studying protein dynamics. This approach can provide new ways to identify target sites on proteins for drugs to work effectively, said Dong Xu, a Curators' Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the MU College of Engineering and one of the study's authors. "Previously, drug designers may have known about a couple places on a protein's structure to target with their therapies," said Xu, who is also the Paul K. and Dianne Shumaker Professor in bioinformatics. "A novel outcome of this method is that we identified a pathway between different areas of the protein structure, which could potentially allow scientists who are designing drugs to see additional possible target sites for delivering their targeted therapies. This can increase the chances that the therapy may be successful."

Xu said they can also simulate how proteins can change in relation to different conditions, such as the development of cancer, and then use that information to infer their relationships with other bodily functions. "With machine learning we can really study what are the important interactions within different areas of the protein structure," Xu said. "Our method provides a systematic review of the data involved when studying proteins, as well as a protein's energy state, which could help when identifying any possible mutation's effect. This is important because protein mutations can enhance the possibility of cancers and other diseases developing in the body."


Is Johnny Depp dating his attorney?

Washington [US], May 12: Rumours of actor Johnny Depp's dating his attorney Camille Vasquez are making rounds on social media amid his ongoing defamation trial against his former wife Amber Heard in a Fairfax, Virginia court.


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Pic Courtesy: Johny Depp Twitter


"Whether it's friendship or something more, I be watching Johnny Depp x Camille Vasquez interactions like," a social media user tweeted.

"If Johnny Depp gets with Miss Camille Vasquez. Omg dating a lawyer would be soooooo cute ahhhhh yassss...Well I hope she's single because I see flirting and I hope they live happily ever after," another one wrote. However, a source close to Camille has refuted all the speculations while speaking to TMZ. The source stated that speculation is "nothing more than fan fiction from social media." Johnny has sued Amber for defamation, claiming that a 2018 article she wrote for Washington Post damaged his career.

In the article, Amber had talked about being a domestic abuse survivor but not named Johnny. Johnny and Amber got married in 2015. However, the marriage was short-lived. They split in May 2016, and Heard accused the actor of sexual abuse. Depp denied the claims, and they settled their divorce in August 2016.



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