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- AI methods have produced the first new antibiotic class in six decades.
- MIT researchers used AI to discover two compounds that cut MRSA levels tenfold in mice.
- The team trained a model on ~39,000 compounds, screened ~12 million molecules, and predicted toxicity on three human cell types to select candidates.
- MRSA causes 150,000 infections and 35,000 deaths each year in the EU, per the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
