{"id":93712,"date":"2019-07-16T01:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T08:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ai-drug-hunters-could-give-big-pharma-a-run-for-its-money"},"modified":"2019-07-16T01:42:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T08:42:53","slug":"ai-drug-hunters-could-give-big-pharma-a-run-for-its-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ai-drug-hunters-could-give-big-pharma-a-run-for-its-money","title":{"rendered":"AI Drug Hunters Could Give Big Pharma a Run for Its Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-drug-hunters-could-give-big-pharma-a-run-for-its-money2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But a less-noticed win for DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence arm of Google\u2019s parent Alphabet Inc., at a biennial biology conference could upend how drugmakers find and develop new medicines. It could also dial up pressure on the world\u2019s largest pharmaceutical companies to prepare for a technological arms race. Already, a new breed of upstarts are jumping into the fray.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Alphabet\u2019s DeepMind cracked a problem that long vexed biologists, heating up a technological arms race in health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But a less-noticed win for DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence arm of Google\u2019s parent Alphabet Inc., at a biennial biology conference could upend how drugmakers find and develop new medicines. It could also dial up pressure on the world\u2019s largest pharmaceutical companies to prepare for a technological arms race. Already, a new breed of upstarts are jumping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93712","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}