New AI Tool Can Thwart Coronavirus Mutations: Study FOLLOW US ON: Kachru Houston: Researchers have developed a new method to counter emergent mutations of the deadly coronavirus and hasten vaccine development to stop the pathogen responsible for killing thousands of people and ruining the economy, according to a study. The research team at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, using artificial intelligence developed a method to speed the analysis of vaccines and zero in on the best potential preventive medical therapy, the varsity said in a statement. The method is easily adaptable to analyse potential mutations of the virus, ensuring the best possible vaccines are quickly identified — solutions that give humans a big advantage over the evolving contagion. Their machine-learning model can accomplish vaccine design cycles that once took months or years in a matter of seconds and minutes, the study says.