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AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA

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AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA

Getty Images 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 … Read more

Widespread ‘Superbug’ in Pigs Can Jump to Humans

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Widespread ‘Superbug’ in Pigs Can Jump to Humans

By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) – A strain of the superbug MRSA has emerged in pigs that is highly resistant to antibiotics and a growing cause of human infections. University of Cambridge researchers said this particular strain of MRSA, short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has shown up in … Read more