{"id":1675,"date":"2026-07-24T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/how-researchers-are-using-ai-to-speed-up-drug-discovery-and-development-qa\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:00:03","slug":"how-researchers-are-using-ai-to-speed-up-drug-discovery-and-development-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/how-researchers-are-using-ai-to-speed-up-drug-discovery-and-development-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"How researchers are using AI to speed up drug discovery and development: Q&amp;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drug development is among the slowest, most failure-prone processes in modern science, with about 90% of drug candidates never reaching the market. Today, artificial intelligence methods have accelerated the first step\u2014plucking promising molecules out of endless possibilities\u2014but countless challenges remain. A successful drug must be not only safe and effective but also able to bypass the body&#8217;s defenses and reach the right target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-attribution\">Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-ai-drug-discovery-qa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phys.org &#8211; latest science and technology news stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug development is among the slowest, most failure-prone processes in modern science, with about 90% of drug candidates never reaching the market. Today, artificial intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}