
How AI Could Help Us Discover Miracle Drugs
Plain English with Derek Thompson
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Accelerating Drug Discovery through Structure
The advent of AlphaFold 2 has revolutionized drug discovery by providing access to multiple protein structures, significantly accelerating the discovery cycle and improving accuracy. Previously, structural characterization was a costly and time-consuming process, limiting the number of targets investigated. With AlphaFold 2, researchers are now capable of proposing drug candidates for conditions like liver cancer within days or weeks, a process that previously spanned months or years.
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