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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals 2 place · today 07:30 EDT

What’s in a Name: Why this AI startup honours Aaron Swartz in its mission to transform drug development

Currently, the process of developing new drugs is frustratingly slow, costly, and risky. It usually takes more than 10 years and over $2.3B to bring a successful drug to market, and in fact, 90 per cent of drug candidates fail before they get to patients. Many of these failures could have been avoided if we ... Read more

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