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What about the other two use cases it came up repurposing existing drugs and identifying novel treatment targets for liver fibrosis as per the paper?

https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakth...

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This article claims only 3 of the new materials were actually snythesizable (and all had been previously known of), and that the drug for liver fibrosis had already been investigated for liver fibrosis.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/22/google-co-scientist-ai-cr...

The snythesizable materials is another paper by deepmind not relying on LLMs and unrelated to this one. The article's author briefly mentions one of the other two findings without providing any sources to support the claim that they aren’t novel/useful?

If it helps scientists find answers faster, I don’t see the problem—especially when the alternative is sifting through Google or endless research papers.

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