{"id":102612,"date":"2020-02-21T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T19:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-may-have-solved-the-worlds-drug-resistant-bacteria-problem-using-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2020-02-21T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T19:02:45","slug":"researchers-may-have-solved-the-worlds-drug-resistant-bacteria-problem-using-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-may-have-solved-the-worlds-drug-resistant-bacteria-problem-using-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Researchers may have solved the world\u2019s drug-resistant bacteria problem using artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-may-have-solved-the-worlds-drug-resistant-bacteria-problem-using-artificial-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at MIT <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2020\/artificial-intelligence-identifies-new-antibiotic-0220\" target=\"_blank\">reported Thursday<\/a> that they have harnessed artificial intelligence to identify a completely new antibiotic compound that killed all but one of the antibacterial-resistant pathogens they tested it on. Drug-resistant bacteria are a large and growing problem, causing 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths in the U.S. each year and more in developing countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/02\/20\/machine-learning-finds-novel-antibiotic-able-to-kill-superbugs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>STAT News<\/em> reports<\/a>. The computer learning model developed at MIT, described in the journal <em>Cell<\/em>, has the potential to identify many new types of antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers named the compound halicin, after HAL, the initially useful, eventually murderous sentient computer in <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>. They also discovered eight more promising antibacterial compounds, two of which appear very powerful. They tried out halicin on mice and plan to work with a nonprofit or drugmaker to see if it\u2019s effective and safe in humans.<\/p>\n<p>The MIT team\u2019s machine-learning model independently looked for certain properties \u2014 in this case, the ability to kill E. coli and not harm humans \u2014 among about 2,500 molecules in a drug repurposing database. Halicin was originally considered as a treatment for diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at MIT reported Thursday that they have harnessed artificial intelligence to identify a completely new antibiotic compound that killed all but one of the antibacterial-resistant pathogens they tested it on. Drug-resistant bacteria are a large and growing problem, causing 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths in the U.S. each year and more in developing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}