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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 9, 2026Published at 3:02 AM EDT · New York
A Harvard Aging Lab Says AI Screened a Trillion Molecules in Two Months Against 160 Years of Manual Work
David Sinclair describes docking simulations built on DeepMind protein structure predictions that narrowed the field to about 200 candidates, on a laboratory budget of roughly $3 million a year.
David Sinclair, the Harvard Medical School geneticist who studies aging, said in a recent podcast interview that his laboratory used AI to complete in two months a molecular screening task he estimates would have taken 160 years by conventi…
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