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AI helps identify new antibiotic candidate for drug-resistant gonorrhea, tested on 'vagina on a chip'

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Kamal Nahas

1d ago· 1 min readenNews

Summary

Researchers used AI to screen 6 million molecules and identified a potential new antibiotic for gonorrhea, a drug-resistant STI. The candidate was tested successfully in a "vagina on a chip" lab model. The study highlights the urgent need for new antibiotics as gonorrhea grows increasingly resistant to existing treatments.

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bskyAI helps identify new antibiotic candidate for drug-resistant gonorrhea, tested on 'vagina on a chip'livescience.com

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There's an urgent need to address antibiotic resistance in gonorrhea, and discovering new antibiotics is one of the key strategies.
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To sift through 6 million molecules in pursuit of new gonorrhea treatments, researchers trained AI to select the best drug candidate and then tested it in a "vagina on a chip."

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