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Scientists use AI to discover new antibiotic to treat deadly superbugAccording to a new study published on Thursday in the science journal Nature Chemical Biology, a group of scientists from McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a new antibiotic that can be used to kill a deadly hospital superbug.
The superbug in question is Acinetobacter baumannii, which the World Health Organization has classified as a critical threat among its priority pathogens a group of bacteria families that pose the greatest threat to human health.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/25/artificial-intelligence-antibiotic-deadly-superbug-hospital
A the discovery of a new antibiotic effective against a Gram-negative bacteria is a real breakthrough. Antibiotic development has stalled. It has been 36 years since the last new class of antibiotics, the lipopeptides, were discovered in 1987.
Deep learning-guided discovery of an antibiotic targeting Acinetobacter baumannii
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-023-01349-8.epdf

KS Toronado
(21,610 posts)and let's not forget cancer.
erronis
(21,675 posts)of the new advances. The mRNA that all the magats/vaccine-deniers hate.
Apparently many cancers including the usually deadly pancreatic cancer is now being treated in the lab with patient-specific mRNA developed for their particular genome and type of cancer.
AI (or expert systems or neural networks or whatever) is definitely helping science learn much more about what's going on in biology, everything. It's an exciting time.
Midnight Writer
(24,878 posts)I recently read an article about using AI to read x-rays and CT scans. The AI often finds things the humans missed, and is more accurate overall.
If used wisely, AI could be an enormous benefit to the world. It's the "if used wisely" part that scares me.
KS Toronado
(21,610 posts)It's when modern day Fascists use it to achieve their goals that's scary.
BannonsLiver
(19,793 posts)The poster who does daily OPs on AI and others here have said AI can only be used for evil purposes and will destroy the world. Is that not the case? 🤷♂️🙄
LiberalArkie
(19,049 posts)chowder66
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