A drug that destroys one of the world's deadliest bugs has been discovered. Artificial intelligence (AI) could hold the key to combating antimicrobial resistance - named among the biggest threats facing mankind.
Acinetobacter baumannii is a hospital-acquired infection. It takes advantage of those with compromised immune systems, with premature babies being particularly vulnerable.
Canadian and US scientists used state of the art 'deep learning' to identify the antibiotic that kills it. Named Aubacin, it was effective in experiments on mice with infected wounds and bacterial cells grown in the lab.
