AI designs new antibiotics to combat superbugs

https://www.techdigest.tv/2025/08/ai-designs-new-antibiotics-to-combat-superbugs.html

In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used artificial intelligence to invent two new potential antibiotics capable of killing drug-resistant superbugs, including gonorrhoea and MRSA. This development could mark the beginning of a “second golden age” for antibiotic discovery and help combat the rising global threat of drug-resistant infections, which currently cause over a million deaths annually.The AI-driven process represents a significant leap forward from previous methods that used AI to identify potential drugs from existing compounds. In this case, the generative AI was given a library of millions of chemical fragments and tasked with designing entirely new molecular structures “atom-by-atom.”