{"id":72737,"date":"2017-09-20T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/how-ai-can-help-reduce-the-cost-of-drug-discovery"},"modified":"2017-09-20T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:42:31","slug":"how-ai-can-help-reduce-the-cost-of-drug-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/how-ai-can-help-reduce-the-cost-of-drug-discovery","title":{"rendered":"How AI can Help Reduce the Cost of Drug Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-ai-can-help-reduce-the-cost-of-drug-discovery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cost of drug discovery and subsequent development is a massive challenge in the pharmaceutical industry. A typical drug can cost upwards of $2.5 billion and a decade or more to identify and test a new drug candidate[1].<\/p>\n<p>These costs have been increasing steadily over the years, and pharmaceutical manufacturers are constantly seeking ways to improve efficiency to save time and money and speed up research progress.<\/p>\n<p>Automation in the lab is one example; tasks that were traditionally carried out by technicians can now be done by machines. Increasingly sophisticated assays to detect new drug candidates have also helped to slash development time. Now a new ally has arrived to aid drug development \u2013 artificial intelligence \u2013 and a powerful ally it is.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/ai-and-research\/\">http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/ai-and-research\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of drug discovery and subsequent development is a massive challenge in the pharmaceutical industry. A typical drug can cost upwards of $2.5 billion and a decade or more to identify and test a new drug candidate[1]. These costs have been increasing steadily over the years, and pharmaceutical manufacturers are constantly seeking ways to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}