AI helped design a working virus that kills bacteria. Researchers explain what it could mean for the fight against antibiotic resistance.
- Professor of Microbiology, University of Leicester
Researchers used AI to design working bacteriophages for the first time, raising questions about antibiotic resistance and biosecurity.
Bacteria-eating viruses that kill the hospital superbug C. difficile have been isolated by scientists. The use of these kinds of viruses, known as phages, to tackle bacterial infection was employed before…
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