These compounds can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes deadly infections. Anne Trafton|MIT News Using a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered a class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 deaths in the United States every year. In a...
Demand for new antibiotics surges as drug-resistant and emerging infections become an increasingly severe global health threat. Researchers are racing to reexamine certain microbes that serve as one of our most successful sources of therapeutics: the actinomycetes. Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Hawaii discovered a potential candidate for drug development from...
