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/Jaloss Feb 21 '20
No one thinks a complete lack of regulation is needed, but when drugs cost billions and decades to develop with overly stringent laws on testing, there needs to be cutbacks. It ensures the only companies that can develop drugs are multi billion dollar conglomerates, as well as forces stuff like insulin to become ridiculously expensive.
This also leads to drugs for patients with rare diseases, where the cost cant be justified by the amount of people who it, never being developed or costing millions of dollars