{"id":103822,"date":"2020-03-15T18:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/mits-deep-learning-found-an-antibiotic-for-a-germ-nothing-else-could-kill"},"modified":"2020-03-15T18:06:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:06:30","slug":"mits-deep-learning-found-an-antibiotic-for-a-germ-nothing-else-could-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/mits-deep-learning-found-an-antibiotic-for-a-germ-nothing-else-could-kill","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s deep learning found an antibiotic for a germ nothing else could kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-deep-learning-found-an-antibiotic-for-a-germ-nothing-else-could-kill2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at MIT and Harvard\u2019s Broad Institute and MIT\u2019s CSAIL built a deep learning network that can acquire a broad representation of molecular structure and thereby discover novel antibiotics. The resulting compound, halicin, can destroy a pathogen for which no cure has existed, and it could even help in the fight against coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at MIT and Harvard\u2019s Broad Institute and MIT\u2019s CSAIL built a deep learning network that can acquire a broad representation of molecular structure and thereby discover novel antibiotics. The resulting compound, halicin, can destroy a pathogen for which no cure has existed, and it could even help in the fight against coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103822","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\/103822","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}