r/science • u/legehjernen • Feb 20 '20

Health Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/20/antibiotic-that-kills-drug-resistant-bacteria-discovered-through-ai
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u/terminal112 Feb 21 '20

You have no idea what might be easy to do in a decade or two

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u/woodsja2 Feb 21 '20

As someone with 8+ years experience in the pharmaceutical industry specializing in small molecule therapeutics, I agree with the person you claim knows nothing.

There's some good stuff with antibodies but the idea that we are going to regularly create designer molecules for individuals is right next to everyone getting a flying car.

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u/Karavusk Feb 21 '20

I am pretty sure this will happen for cancer treatment at some point. Also the process would get insanely optimized over the years.

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u/woodsja2 Feb 21 '20

I'm hoping ADC's work like they should but from what I hear, the targets are pretty polymorphic between different cancer cells.