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Back|National Toxicology Research Institute plans to utilize decades of accumulated data by establishing a new 'Toxic AI Data Center'
National Toxicology Research Institute plans to utilize decades of accumulated data by establishing a new 'Toxic AI Data Center'
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National Toxicology Research Institute plans to utilize decades of accumulated data by establishing a new 'Toxic AI Data Center'

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The National Institute of Toxicology (KIT) announced that it will establish a new 'Toxicology AI Data Center' to apply AI to toxicity data accumulated over decades, reduce the use of laboratory animals by using a virtual control group, and increase the efficiency of non-clinical testing.

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The National Institute of Toxicology has been holding the Day of Love for Laboratory Animals event since 1985, and has maintained AAALAC certification since 1989. Accumulation of toxicity data and animal welfare efforts have continued for a long time.

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National Toxicology Research Institute โ€œWe will breathe life into decades of accumulated data by establishing a new Toxicology AI Data Centerโ€

It is expected that the use of โ€˜virtual control groupsโ€™ will reduce the use of laboratory animals and increase the efficiency of non-clinical trials.

(๋Œ€์ „=์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค) ๊น€์ค€ํ˜ธ ๊ธฐ์ž = "๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋…์„ฑAI๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ์‹ ์„ค์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์ถ•์ ํ•ด ์˜จ ๋…์„ฑ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์— ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ AI๋ฅผ ์ ‘๋ชฉํ•ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ํ•œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹คํ—˜๋™๋ฌผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ๋…์„ฑํ‰๊ฐ€์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."(๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋…์„ฑ๊ณผํ•™์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž)

Toxicity evaluation is necessary to determine the safety of not only medicines, but also chemicals and various products in everyday life.

ํ™”ํ•™๋ฌผ์งˆ์˜ ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋…์„ฑ๊ณผํ•™์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ(KIT) ํ—ˆ์ •๋‘ ์†Œ์žฅ์€ 4์ผ ์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค์— "์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ถ•์ ๋œ ๋…์„ฑ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์— AI ๋“ฑ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ์ˆจ์„ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋„ฃ์„ ๊ณ„ํš"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The โ€˜National Toxic AI Data Centerโ€™, newly established this year, plays one role.

์—ฐ๊ตฌ ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰๋œ ์‹คํ—˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ ๊ธฐ๊ด€ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์— ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ๋„ ์ด๋ฅผ ์•Œ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ฑ„ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹คํ—˜์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ถ€์„œ์™€ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ํฉ์–ด์ง„ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์ค€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•ด ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI)์ด ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋…์„ฑํ‰๊ฐ€์™€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ƒ์ด๋‹ค.

KIT ๋‚ด๋ถ€์— ์ถ•์ ๋œ ๋…์„ฑ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์™€ ์‚ฐ์—… ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•ด ์‹ ์•ฝ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๊ณผ ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ ํ‰๊ฐ€์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด '์ž ์ž๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์— ์ˆจ์„ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋„ฃ๋Š”๋‹ค'๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋…์„ฑAI๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ์ง€ํ–ฅ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

KIT ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋Š” "๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ค‘๋ณต์‹คํ—˜์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•ด ๋ถ„์„์˜ ํ†ต๊ณ„์  ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๋ฉฐ "๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ํ•œ๊ณณ์— ๋ชจ์œผ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ทธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์„œ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The official added that the key is data standardization.

KIT๋Š” ๋น„์ž„์ƒ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ตํ™˜ ๊ตญ์ œํ‘œ์ค€(SEND)์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์˜ ์šฉ์–ด์™€ ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์ค€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ , AI ํ•™์Šต์— ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋‹ค.

One area that shows new possibilities for utilizing accumulated data is virtual control group (VCG).

VCG๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋น„์ž„์ƒ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ ์ถ•์ ๋œ ๋Œ€์กฐ๊ตฐ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋Œ€์กฐ๊ตฐ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ƒ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋กœ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜๋Š” ์ ‘๊ทผ์ด๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œํ—˜์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์‹คํ—˜๋™๋ฌผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ๋น„์ž„์ƒ์‹œํ—˜์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

KIT๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ AI์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์—๋Š” ์‹คํ—˜๋™๋ฌผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ณผํ•™์  ์‹ ๋ขฐ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋…์„ฑํ‰๊ฐ€ ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜์‹๋„ ์ž๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

KIT๋Š” 1985๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งค๋…„ '์‹คํ—˜๋™๋ฌผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์˜ ๋‚ '์„ ์—ด์–ด ์ธ๋ฅ˜์˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผ ๊ณผํ•™ ๋ฐœ์ „์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•œ ์‹คํ—˜๋™๋ฌผ์˜ ํฌ์ƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๋™๋ฌผ์‹คํ—˜์œค๋ฆฌ์œ„์›ํšŒ(IACUC) ์ฃผ๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์ด ์‹คํ—˜๋™๋ฌผ์˜ ์ธ๋„์  ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ๋‹ค์งํ•˜๊ณ  ํฌ์ƒ๋œ ๋™๋ฌผ์„ ์ถ”๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋‹ค. It is an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of respect for life and animal welfare during the research process.

KIT๋Š” 1989๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์•„์‹œ์•„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ตญ์ œ์‹คํ—˜๋™๋ฌผ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ‰๊ฐ€์ธ์ฆํ˜‘ํšŒ(AAALAC International) ์ธ์ฆ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋™๋ฌผ ๋ณต์ง€์™€ ์œค๋ฆฌ์  ์ฒ˜์šฐ๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตญ์ œ์  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋™๋ฌผ์‹คํ—˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ยท์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๋Š” AI ์˜ˆ์ธก ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ๋…์„ฑํ‰๊ฐ€์˜ ์†๋„์™€ ์ •ํ™•๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๋ฉด ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌผ์งˆ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ผ์ฐ ์„ ๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ›„์† ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋Œ€์ƒ์„ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ํ—ˆ ์†Œ์žฅ์€ "AI์™€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๋…์„ฑ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ํŒ๋‹จ์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜"์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ "์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ํ˜„์žฅ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ œ์•ฝยท๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค ์‚ฐ์—…๊ณผ ๊ทœ์ œ๊ณผํ•™ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ๋„ ํญ๋„“๊ฒŒ ํ™œ์šฉ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ ๋…์„ฑ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ฒ ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

What to Watch

AI outlook โ€” possibilities, not facts

  • The use of laboratory animals will gradually decrease through the operation of the Toxic AI Data Center.

    Likely ยท Within years

  • Data standardization and use of AI will improve the efficiency of non-clinical trials.

    Likely ยท Within years

Open Questions

  • ?What is the specific budget for the Toxic AI Data Center?
  • ?How will the verification process for virtual control technology be carried out?
  • ?When will data standardization work be completed?

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KIST wins top prize at robot design competition for two consecutive years

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) research team announced on the 4th that it won the top prize in the demonstration category for the modular robot furniture system 'Bot Square' at the RO-MAN 2026 robot design competition held in Kitakyushu, Japan, and was honored for the second consecutive year.

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