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Can artificial intelligence help craft new medicines?

Drug Discovery World

The magic bullet was the drug, while the specific mark it would reach in the syphilis causing bacteria to eliminate the disease was the drug target. The drug target for Penicillin is a protein that helps bacteria to synthesise its cell wall. Here, new bioassay technologies helped testing, but more definite answers were required.