In the escalating arms race between antibiotics and the bacteria that evade them, a team of computational biologists at Southwest Jiaotong University has unveiled an artificial intelligence pipeline that designs entirely new molecules from scratch — short peptides engineered to shut down the two key enzymes that allow drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae to laugh off penicillin. […]
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