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Snake and Spider Venom Produce Hundreds of ‘Promising’ Potential Antibiotics
A dwarf sand adder snake – credit Arno Moller, Unsplash Hundreds of potential antibiotics have been discovered in snake and spider venom thanks to AI. A screening of global venom libraries, powered by artificial intelligence uncovered dozens of “promising” new drug candidates. AI has already been used to complete screenings of plant compounds and existing drugs in search of potential …
Read More »Ancient illness that kills 110,000 a year rapidly becoming resistant to antibiotics as it mutates
An ancient killer has become all the more dangerous with time, mutating often to better sidestep medications. The bacterium that causes typhoid fever, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S Typhi), has evolved to resist common antibiotics. In 2022, a group of researchers from around the world identified more than 4,000 strains obtained from blood samples from over 70 countries as extensively …
Read More »Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics, Warns Study : ScienceAlert
In spite of having plagued humans for millennia, typhoid fever is rarely considered in developed countries today. But this ancient threat is still very much a danger in our modern world. According to research published in 2022, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and is rapidly replacing strains that aren’t resistant. Currently, antibiotics are the …
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