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 Every year, there are thousands of new drugs in development at labs around the world. But only a tiny fraction of them make it through to human trials -- not for final approval. And even among those that do get through, the majority of new medications are just more recent versions of existing drugs, like cheaper generic versions. Drug discovery systems based on artificial intelligence. Even though the tech is still growing, several new drugs designed with the aid of AI are already in clinical trials. And together with another modern tech like fully automated robot scientists, AI is changing drug discovery in revolutionary ways. It’s only recently that we’ve been able to create drugs from scratch. Some drugs are based on traditional remedies and natural products, like aspirin. The first fully synthetic drug, the sedative chloral hydrate, It was developed in 1869. But there was still quite a bit of trial and error involved.  That’s how, in 1932, we got sulfa drugs, when researchers at a