AI used to design antibiotics that can combat drug-resistant superbugs gonorrhoea and MRSA

A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used generative AI algorithms to design more than 36 million possible compounds.

Once computationally screened for antimicrobial properties, the top candidates were shown to be structurally different from any existing antibiotics.

They also seemed to work in a new way - by disrupting bacterial cell membranes.

Antibiotics kill bacteria, but some infections have become resistant to drugs.

It is estimated that drug-resistant bacterial infections cause nearly five million deaths per year worldwide.

Read Full Article Here