Adamsmithstwit on Nostr: This is HUGE - AI predicted nearly 1 MILLION new antibiotics in groundbreaking study. ...

This is HUGE - AI predicted nearly 1 MILLION new antibiotics in groundbreaking study. Out of 100 tested peptides, 79 were active in vitro, 63 of these targeted pathogens “We have been able to just accelerate the discovery of antibiotics,” de la Fuente said. “So instead of having to wait five, six years to come up with one candidate, now, on the computer, we can, in just a few hours, come up with hundreds of thousands of candidates.”