Posted 12/24/2023, 2:18:33 PM
AI Discovers First New Antibiotic in Decades to Treat Drug-Resistant Infections
- AI machine learning discovers first new class of antibiotics in over 60 years that can treat drug-resistant staph infections
- Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat that could cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050
- Overuse of antibiotics in humans and livestock is accelerating antimicrobial resistance
- Researchers used AI graph neural networks to screen over 39,300 compounds, identifying 2 antibiotic candidates effective against MRSA
- New antibiotic class overcomes resistance, has favorable properties, and succeeded in treating MRSA infections in mouse models