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Deep learning AI discovers surprising new antibiotics

  • Written by Sriram Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
A colored electron microscope image of MRSA.NIH - NIAID/flickr, CC BY

Imagine you’re a fossil hunter. You spend months in the heat of Arizona digging up bones only to find that what you’ve uncovered is from a previously discovered dinosaur.

That’s how the search for antibiotics has panned out recently. The relatively few...

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