A synthesized antibiotic derived from computer models of bacterial gene products appears to neutralize even drug-resistant bacteria. The compound, named cilagicin, works well in mice and employs a ...

A synthesized antibiotic derived from computer models of bacterial gene products appears to neutralize even drug-resistant bacteria. The compound, named cilagicin, works well in mice and employs a ...

The algorithm-derived alerts at the time of prescription showed a better match for 28% of the pneumonia patients and 17% of urinary tract patients when compared with physicians not receiving such ...

AI scanned animal venom peptides and found 386 potential antibiotics. Most killed drug-resistant bacteria in tests and were ...

Published in Cell, the study uncovered how antibiotic exposure during pregnancy and infancy may permanently weaken the immune ...

A screening of global venom libraries, powered by artificial intelligence, uncovered dozens of "promising" new drug ...

Penicillin revolutionized medicine. Other prominent examples of drugs derived from natural products currently used today include the anti-fungal amphotericin B, isolated from the soil bacteria ...

As antibiotic resistance grows, developing new drugs and using current ones more responsibly becomes even more imperative. ... roughly 75% of approved antibiotics are derived from natural products.

Beta-lactamases are enzymes that cause the inactivation of penicillin-derived antibiotics, thereby conferring antibiotic resistance to the bacteria carrying them (in their genome or plasmids). Active ...