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. 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.
Two compounds were found to be effective against gonorrhoea and MRSA infections - namely NG1 and DN1, respectively.
