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Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates

Posted by Gemechu Taye in biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Dec 25
2023

These compounds can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes deadly infections.

Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers discovered a class of compounds that can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.