AI designs two potential antibiotics to target drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA

Artificial intelligence has been used to design two potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have revealed. The drugs, created atom-by-atom by AI, were effective against superbugs in both laboratory and animal tests, BBC reported.

The study, published in Cell, outlines how generative AI was used to create antibiotics rather than simply searching existing chemical libraries. Researchers targeted Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the sexually transmitted infection…