By Natalie Lisbona – BBC News
Dr Talia Cohen Solal sits down at a microscope to look closely at human brain cells grown in a petri dish.
“The brain is very subtle, complex and beautiful,” she says.
A neuroscientist, Dr Cohen Solal is the co-founder and chief executive of Israeli health-tech firm Genetika+.
Established in 2018, the company says its technology can best match antidepressants to patients, to avoid unwanted side effects, and make sure that the prescribed drug works as well as possible.
“We can characterise the right medication for each patient the first time,” adds Dr Cohen Solal.
Genetika+ does this by combining the latest in stem cell technology – the growing of specific human cells – with artificial intelligence (AI) software.
