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Stanford AI agents design drug Merck independently develops

Stanford AI agents design drug Merck independently develops

Stanford researchers used AI agents to design a drug molecule, and separately, Merck built the same compound without knowledge of Stanford's work. The convergence suggests the AI-designed structure has genuine scientific merit.

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