Artificial intelligence helped scientists discover a new super-powerful antibiotic.

Scientists have taken thousands of drugs with precisely known chemical structures and manually tested them against Acinetobacter baumannii. It is one of three superbugs that the WHO has identified as a critical threat. It can cause meningitis, pneumonia, wound infection, bloodstream infections, and urological infections. Based on the results, artificial intelligence created a list of 6680 compounds whose effectiveness was unknown, and then a final list of 240 positions. And this is an hour and a half later. Subsequent laboratory tests helped scientists identify 9 potential antibiotics.