A new class of antibiotics for drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria which was discovered using more transparent deep learning models.
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This is the sort of deep learning I can see benefiting society, as opposed, to say, summarizing Great Expectations for an essay.
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I think the headline is quite wrong in regards to this press release, since it’s a new AI drug that is using a similar mechanism of action of an AI drug that was discovered in 2019. It’s strange because it says exactly that in their source.
Wow! This sifting AI can do, in conjunction with bench top experimentation makes for a whole new game in drug discovery. From approx 39,000 substances for training the model, to 12 million compounds screened, to reveal 280 likely compounds, then off to the lab, and they found 2 promising candidates. Talk about finding a (2) needles in a hundred acres of haystacks!!
Citation: Discovery of a structural class of antibiotics with explainable deep learning (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06887-8)
I used to think that CRISPR would cure cancer, but we’d be back to square one with bacterial disease as antibiotic resistance became widespread.
Now it seems the only thing I have to worry about is paying for it.
(Yes you are too European to understand that.)
Guess minds, like orbits, have their own gravity
