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Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium
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Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium

by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scanning electromicrograph of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Credit: NIAID 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 study appearing in Nature, the...