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sanqueue@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium

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Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium

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sanqueue@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Using a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered a class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 deaths in the United States every year.
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  • MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world
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    I guess all the people solely cheering for this aren’t aware of the damage we’ve been doing to ourselves with antibiotics:

    While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it’s gone you can’t get it back. (Apr 2019).

    Resistance may already be a solved problem: https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/#fmt-to-counter-antibiotic-resistance

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      deleted by creator

      • MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world
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        It says who they are in their signature. And a plethora of peer-reviewed papers are cited.

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    Great; so this is all public domain knowledge since it was created with AI according to current law, right?

    • Daxtron2@startrek.website
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      Personally I think all medicine should be public domain

      • deft@ttrpg.network
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        Everything should.

        Medicine. Internet. Waste disposal.

        • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          So you want to reduce innovation and cause creators to not get properly paid for their work? Great idea

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            lol “innovation” what is this 1925?

            how innovative are the cars being produced because they look the same.

            half those medicines are publicly funded

            the Internet is publicly funded.

            this belief of private sector innovation is not as true as they sell it to be.

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              This. Public institutions do a way better job and are more efficient at most things compared to private companies. It’s just a fact.

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