Neat News 2702 (added 2023-05-25)
New antibiotic developed using AI
Public Domain by CDC (Don Stalons)
In order to find an antibiotic against the dangerous bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii, scientists tested first its behaviour on thousands of known drugs and then let an AI system compute an estimate for the effectiveness of 6680 other drugs. The 240 most promising candidates were then tested again in the lab on mice and of the 9 potential antibiotics one proved to be a very potent antibiotic, now called abaucin.
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