Published Jul 23, 2026, 8:00 AM ET · Updated 4 months ago · 1 source

How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
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Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…