{"id":223322,"date":"2025-10-13T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/novel-antibiotic-targets-ibd-and-ai-predicted-how-it-would-work-before-scientists-could-prove-it"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:04:41","slug":"novel-antibiotic-targets-ibd-and-ai-predicted-how-it-would-work-before-scientists-could-prove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/novel-antibiotic-targets-ibd-and-ai-predicted-how-it-would-work-before-scientists-could-prove-it","title":{"rendered":"Novel antibiotic targets IBD\u2014and AI predicted how it would work before scientists could prove it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-antibiotic-targets-ibd-and-ai-predicted-how-it-would-work-before-scientists-could-prove-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made two scientific breakthroughs at once: they not only discovered a brand-new antibiotic that targets inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), but also successfully used a new type of AI to predict exactly how the drug works. To their knowledge, this is a global first for the AI.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed in the journal Nature Microbiology, the discovery unveils a promising new treatment option for millions of people affected by Crohn\u2019s disease and other related conditions, while also showcasing important new applications for AI in drug discovery research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work shows that we\u2019re still just scratching the surface as far as AI-guided drug discovery goes,\u201d says Jon Stokes, an assistant professor in McMaster\u2019s Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences and principal investigator on the new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made two scientific breakthroughs at once: they not only discovered a brand-new antibiotic that targets inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), but also successfully used a new type of AI to predict exactly how the drug works. To their knowledge, this is a global first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223322","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\/223322","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}