AI-Designed Molecules Show Potent Activity Against Resistant Bacteria

Using generative artificial intelligence (generative AI), scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and their collaborators elsewhere designed novel antibiotics capable of combating two challenging infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Details of the work are published in a new Cell paper titled “A generative deep learning approach to de novo antibiotic design.”

According to the paper, the scientists used generative AI to design more than…