What If Your Next Prescription Was Designed by Artificial Intelligence?
One day you're going in for a prescription when it dawns upon you that the medicine you're about to take was not solely constructed by a team of scientists but with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Sounds like something out of a science fiction film, right? Well, this imagined futuristic world is closer than we think. The Reason for the Long Timeline of Conventional Drug Development New medicine development has always been an exceedingly slow and costly affair. Generally, the drug development process takes anywhere between approximately 10 one to 15 years to leap from research into a pharmacy. In between, thousands of compounds are tried out, with most being failed candidates before they even get to clinical trial stage. This is why some treatments for great diseases still remain beyond reach. The Game Changer-AI This is where AI comes into play. Rather than testing millions of possibilities in a lab, AI can go from sifting through vast amounts of medical data to...