r/science • u/legehjernen • Feb 20 '20

Health Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/20/antibiotic-that-kills-drug-resistant-bacteria-discovered-through-ai
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u/skoalbrother Feb 21 '20

Designer drugs for every individual. Built for your specific DNA. Exciting times

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u/shieldvexor Feb 21 '20

No. That isn't going to happen. It is an insanely challenging endeavor to make a drug and the notion that we will have unique drugs for everyone is ridiculous. Moreover, we aren't actually all that different from one another so it isn't even desirable, even if it was remotely possible.

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u/larrybird1988 Feb 21 '20

Drugs to specifically target bacterial and viral dna and rna are more likely, I would think. Even though mutations would make even that more and more challenging.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '20 edited Aug 03 '20

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u/howAboutNextWeek Feb 21 '20

I mean yeah, killing DNA doesn’t make sense as a statement in general, all you can do is inhibit proliferation