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The nature article is paywalled so it's impossible to see what they actually did, and the abstract is not very clear either. What benefit did they get from who
by photochemsyn 3y ago
The nature article is paywalled so it's impossible to see what they actually did, and the abstract is not very clear either. What benefit did they get from whole-genome sequencing, for example?
Additionally, it can't be called an antibiotic until it goes through the necessary human clinical trials, where all kinds of problems can crop up - they don't seem to provide any evidence that their AI-enabled scan for human cell toxicity actually worked.
Finally, the real problem with antibiotic resistance is that microbes always evolve resistance over time if the antibiotics are overused (i.e prophylactic use in industrial animal agribusiness, and careless prescriptions of antibiotics from doctors).
- throwawaymaths 3y agoAn antibiotic is an antibiotic whether or not it would kill a patient too.
- ycui1986 3y agobleach is also antibiotic then
- hackernewds 3y agoso is lava then
- kbelder 3y agoFair, but finding new antibiotics then becomes trivial.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoIsolating a new antibiotic (even if it wouldn't work on humans) is typically worth a chemistry PhD. Call me when you get it.
- mminer237 3y agoCan't you just pick a random chlorite?