Scientists infected a 'vagina on a chip' with gonorrhea — then cured it with a new antibiotic found by AI

Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic for gonorrhea using artificial intelligence. Scientists trained the AI to screen through six million candidate molecules, then tested the leading candidate in a specialized tissue model—a vagina-on-a-chip—where it cured the infection. According to Live Science, this approach demonstrates how machine learning can speed the discovery of antibiotics for increasingly resistant infections.

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