<span class="vcard">Anne Trafton | MIT News Office</span>
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

New model offers a way to speed up drug discovery

By applying a language model to protein-drug interactions, researchers can quickly screen large libraries of potential drug compounds.

Using AI, scientists find a drug that could combat drug-resistant infections

The machine-learning algorithm identified a compound that kills Acinetobacter baumannii, a bacterium that lurks in many hospital settings.

3 Questions: Leo Anthony Celi on ChatGPT and medicine

The chatbot’s success on the medical licensing exam shows that the test — and medical education — are flawed, Celi says.

How the brain switches between different sets of rules

When you slow down after exiting the highway, or hush your voice in the library, you’re using this brain mechanism.

Doctors rely on more than just data for medical decision making

Computer scientists find that physicians’ “gut feelings” influence how many tests they order for patients.