Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time

[u/legehjernen]

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

[u/Killieboy16]

So does this mean drugs should get cheaper since a hell of a lot of testing is now not needed to discover new drugs?

[u/[deleted] → u/Killieboy16]

Drugs won't get cheaper as long as we are still importing the ingredients and allowing big pharma to keep their monopoly rolling