AI serves as a tool to fight drug resistance and accelerate new antibiotic development

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20251003/AI-serves-as-a-tool-to-fight-drug-resistance-and-accelerate-new-antibiotic-development.aspx 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 a global first for the AI.