An AI-developed drug appeared to make patients biologically younger in a clinical trial

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What just happened? As we all know, we're still waiting for the cancer cure people said AI would bring. However, an AI-generated drug has shown signs of a different breakthrough: slowing the aging process. There's a catch, naturally: changes in aging markers don't prove we'll soon be living to 150.

The experimental drug, rentosertib, comes from Insilico Medicine and was developed to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that progressively scars the lungs.

According to the company, AI helped identify its target, a protein called TNIK, and design the molecule that inhibits it.