https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr94xxye2lo.amp
"James Gallagher
Role, Health and science correspondent
X, @JamesTGallagher
14 August 2025
Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed.
The drugs were designed atom-by-atom by the AI and killed the superbugs in laboratory and animal tests.
The two compounds still need years of refinement and clinical trials before they could be prescribed.
But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team behind it say AI could start a "second golden age" in antibiotic discovery...
Prof Chris Dowson, at the University of Warwick, said the study was "cool" and showed AI was a "significant step forward as a tool for antibiotic discovery to mitigate against the emergence of resistance".
However, he explains, there is also an economic problem factoring into drug-resistant infections - "how do you make drugs that have no commercial value?"
If a new antibiotic was invented, then ideally you would use it as little as possible to preserve its effectiveness, making it hard for anyone to turn a profit."
this is why we can't have nice things.
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