{"id":184515,"date":"2026-02-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/3-questions-using-ai-to-accelerate-the-discovery-and-design-of-therapeutic-drugs-mit-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:10:11","slug":"3-questions-using-ai-to-accelerate-the-discovery-and-design-of-therapeutic-drugs-mit-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/3-questions-using-ai-to-accelerate-the-discovery-and-design-of-therapeutic-drugs-mit-news\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs | MIT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/3-questions-using-ai-to-accelerate-discovery-design-therapeutic-drugs-0204\">3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs | MIT News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/3-questions-using-ai-to-accelerate-discovery-design-therapeutic-drugs-0204\">https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/3-questions-using-ai-to-accelerate-discovery-design-therapeutic-drugs-0204<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-04 13:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.mit.edu\">news.mit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers at MIT, particularly James J. Collins, combine AI and quantitative modeling to develop engineered cells with new therapeutic properties aimed at combating diseases like Ebola, Zika, SARS-CoV-2, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria.<\/li>\n<li>Collins&#8217; interdisciplinary approach combines expertise from various fields to advance new diagnostics and therapeutics, leveraging collaborations across MIT and institutions like the Wyss Institute.<\/li>\n<li>His work includes significant breakthroughs in developing new antibiotics using generative AI and deep learning, exemplified by the synthesis and testing of compounds like NG1 and DN1.<\/li>\n<li>Collins collaborates with researchers across disciplines to accelerate the transition from computational predictions to validated new therapies, exemplified by projects like the MIT Jameel Clinic and Wyss Institute&#8217;s organs-on-chips technology.<\/li>\n<li>He co-founded Phare Bio to advance promising antibiotic candidates toward clinical use and received a grant for creating 15 new antibiotics through generative AI, aiming to address the global threat of antibiotic resistance with novel, safe, and effective therapies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs | MIT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/202602\/jim-collins-mit-00.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-184515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184517,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184515\/revisions\/184517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}