AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study: Algorithm to mine ‘the entirety of the microbial diversity’ on Earth, speeding up antibiotic resistance research.
AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study: Algorithm to mine ‘the entirety of the microbial diversity’ on Earth, speeding up antibiotic resistance research.
Scientists used an algorithm to mine ‘the entirety of the microbial diversity’ on Earth, speeding up antibiotic resistance research
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More antibiotics is not the solution. We need to be moving away from antibiotics, and drastically decreasing their use/overuse.
I'm surprised FMT aren't a bigger thing.
Think they would be able to make some sort of artificial FMT. Probiotics aren't enough.
I know personally I have taken a boat load of antibiotics as a child and I took some for Cellulitis which because it was a skin infection required a high daily dose, never been the same since.
Think they would be able to make some sort of artificial FMT
We're a long way (many decades) off from that. This blog goes into more detail with references: https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/stool-donors-one-in-a-million-ai-funding-potential
One of which is this page that shows the severe limits of current knowledge: https://humanmicrobiome.info/testing/
What are FMT?
You take someone's poop and put it up your butt.
Fecal microbiota transplantation.
Ah, thanks. I'd heard of that, but wasn't familiar with the initialism.