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Small molecules called immunomodulators can help create more effective vaccines and stronger immunotherapies to treat cancer. But finding the molecules that trigger the right immune response is difficult – the number of drug-like small molecules has been estimated at 1060much higher than the number of stars in the visible universe. In a possible first for the field of vaccine design, machine learning guided the discovery of new molecules that enhance the immune pathway and found a specific small molecule that could outperform the best immunomodulators on the market. The results are published in the journal Chemical Science. “We used artificial…