How the New MRSA Antibiotic Cracked Open AI’s ‘Black Box’
“New antibiotics discovered using AI!” That’s how headlines read in December ’23, when MIT researchers announced a new class of antibiotics that could wipe out the drug-resistant superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in mice. Powered by deep learning, the study was a significant breakthrough. Few new antibiotics have come out since the 1960s, and this …