Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic

Great news! And this is only the beginning! Antibiotic resistance is history!

"to harness the power of artificial intelligence to usher in a new age of antibiotic drug discovery ... “The machine learning model can explore, in silico, large chemical spaces that can be prohibitively expensive for traditional experimental approaches,” ... Over the past few decades, very few new antibiotics have been developed, and most of those newly approved antibiotics are slightly different variants of existing drugs."

Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic | MIT News: Using a new machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful antibiotic that can kill a wide range of species of pathogenic bacteria, including some that are resistant to all known antibiotics.

"A pioneering machine-learning approach has identified powerful new types of antibiotic from a pool of more than 100 million molecules — including one that works against a wide range of bacteria, including tuberculosis and strains considered untreatable. ... The researchers say the antibiotic, called halicin, is the first discovered with artificial intelligence (AI) ... One of these — a molecule being investigated as a diabetes treatment — turned out to be a potent antibiotic, which they called halicin after HAL, the intelligent computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey."


Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI Machine learning spots molecules that work even against ‘untreatable’ strains of bacteria.