Deep Learning AI Discovers Surprising New Antibiotics

Imagine you're a fossil hunter. You spend months in the heat of Arizona digging up bones only to find that what you've uncovered is from a previously discovered dinosaur. That's how the search for antibiotics has panned out recently. The relatively few antibiotic hunters out there keep finding the same types of antibiotics. With the rapid rise in drug resistance in many pathogens, new antibiotics are desperately needed.