VirtualBiotech publishes in Science: tens of thousands of AI scientist agents run drug discovery end to end

james_y_zou · x · 2026-09-19

James Zou's team published VirtualBiotech in Science: tens of thousands of AI scientist agents, carefully orchestrated and coordinated, work together across drug discovery and development — from target discovery to clinical trial design. The paper lays out a blueprint for agentic R&D, an early glimpse of what ultra-scale multi-agent fleets can achieve.

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