AI designed a drug treatment -- from start to validation in mice -- in less than a month

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A group of scientists led by Insilico Medicine designed six novel inhibitors of DDR1, a kinase target implicated in fibrosis and other diseases, in 21 days. The drug discovery process typically takes over 5 years and costs more than a billion dollars. The failure rates in drug discovery exceed 99 percent and in drug development, after the molecule passes animal testing, the failure rates exceed 90 percent. If research like this can continue, treatment costs would fall -- and more effective treatments would make it to patients much faster than the years it currently takes.