Drug Discovery
6 episodes
#5957: The Scientific Plugins Hiding in Plain Sight
ChatGPT's plugin directory has 5,723 entries — but the real scientific AI work is happening in arXiv papers, not plugins.
#5184: AI Is a Number Factory, Not a Wordsmith
Under the prose, every AI model is just matrices of floating-point math. So where does the randomness actually come from?
#3261: The Hidden Zoo of Drug Testing
Mice dominate headlines, but drug validation relies on dogs, pigs, ferrets, and macaques — each chosen for a specific human system.
#1199: When Biology Becomes a Garage Hobby
From garage-made vaccines to 200 million protein structures, AlphaFold is turning the building blocks of life into a software problem.
#433: Will AI Win the Red Queen’s Race Against Superbugs?
Explore how generative AI and "microbial dark matter" are helping us stay one step ahead in the global arms race against superbugs.
#161: From Search to Design: AI's New Molecules
Discover how AI is slashing drug development times and "hallucinating" new molecules to treat once-incurable diseases.