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Artificial Intelligence => AI News => Topic started by: Freddy on February 21, 2020, 11:18:37 am

Title: Antibiotic discovered using machine learning
Post by: Freddy on February 21, 2020, 11:18:37 am
Found this interesting.

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A powerful antibiotic that kills some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world has been discovered using artificial intelligence.

The drug works in a different way to existing antibacterials and is the first of its kind to be found by setting AI loose on vast digital libraries of pharmaceutical compounds.

Full story at The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/20/antibiotic-that-kills-drug-resistant-bacteria-discovered-through-ai).