Drug resistance
Drug resistance

Drug resistance

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Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria

The team used two different AI approaches to design novel antibiotics, including one that showed promise against MRSA.

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Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates

These compounds can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes deadly infections.

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Using AI, scientists find a drug that could combat drug-resistant infections

The machine-learning algorithm identified a compound that kills Acinetobacter baumannii, a bacterium that lurks in many hospital settings.