Researchers have used artificial
intelligence to make a major breakthrough in countering the world's most
dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In just a few hours, the algorithm was
able to find a new super antibiotic, which could destroy the most dangerous
antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Tests have shown that the new
antibiotic can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including Acinetobacter and
Enterobacteriaceae. These are two of the three levels of the alert level, which
the World Health Organization (WHO) classifies as new antibiotic-resistant
bacteria.
This is the first antibiotic found
in history. Researcher Regina Barzilay at MIT said: "I think this is the
strongest antibiotic that has been made to date. It can kill some dangerous
antibiotic resistant bacteria”.
In order to find a new antibiotic, first
of all, researchers have to teach a Google’s deep learning algorithm to
determine which types of molecules can kill bacteria. To do this, they must
provide information on the atomic and molecular features of nearly 2,500 drugs
and natural compounds for AI to study.
After entering enough data, AI
researchers started working to find new antibiotics. However, instead of
focusing on finding an effective antibiotic, the algorithm will focus on
finding an unprecedented one. That is the key to destroy the current
antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
To expand and search for more new powerful
antibiotics, researchers turned to a huge database of about 1.5 billion
compounds. They put the algorithm to work with about 107 million of them. After
3 days, AI released a list of 23 new potential antibiotics.
The head of the research project,
Dr. Jonathan Stokes, said it was impossible to screen all 107 million compounds
manually. Artificial intelligence has helped accomplish this utopia, and
shortened the time to just a few days.
Antibiotic-resistance is a concern,
because without new antibiotics, 10 million people around the world could be at
risk of infection each year. But with artificial intelligence, this worry would
be solved soon.
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