today i learned AI is extracting drugs from extinct animals (yes, actually) woolly mammoths, giant sloths, ancient sea cows, straight-tusked elephants, extinct elk, etc. > scientists reconstructed their proteins using ancient genetic data recovered from bones and preserved remains > those proteins contained 10,311,899 possible drug fragments > testing every fragment physically would take forever > so they built APEX, an AI that predicts which ones can kill bacteria > it narrowed 10.3…