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Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI (www.euronews.com)
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Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI::A new class of antibiotics for drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria which was discovered using more transparent deep learning models.

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[โ€“] assa123@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that exactly what roofuskit said? Sorry to ask but, where's the lie?

[โ€“] jasory@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

The first sentence was sarcasm. How does a company mass produce something that makes no money?

Financially illiterate people seem to be under the impression that rare treatments with high markup are the fiscal bedrock of pharmaceuticals when the reality is that smaller profit but mass produced medicines comprise far greater total income.