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763 AI Cracks Superbug Problem In Two Days That Took Scientists Years

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 02/21/2025 05:00 EDT

AI Cracks Superbug Problem In Two Days That Took Scientists Years

A new AI tool developed by Google solved a decade-long superbug mystery in just two days, reaching the same conclusion as Professor Jose R Penades' unpublished research and even offering additional, promising hypotheses. The BBC reports: The researchers have been trying to find out how some superbugs - dangerous germs that are resistant to antibiotics - get created. Their hypothesis is that the superbugs can form a tail from different viruses which allows them to spread between species. Prof Penades likened

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