Forbes January 22, 2026
Alex Knapp

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at using AI to find new drugs, quantum biotechnology, the ROI of generative AI and more.

At Davos this week, all eyes were on President Trump’s remarks before the session and his designs on Greenland. But that was far from the only conversation happening at the World Economic Forum. Elsewhere at the event, scientists spoke about the urgent need for governments to address the problem of the growing resistance of microbes to antibiotics and other treatments, warning that deaths from these “superbugs” could cause more deaths than cancer by the middle of the century.

Glen Gowers, cofounder of AI biotech Basecamp Research, thinks his company could help address this urgent problem....

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