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.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/05/ai-antibiotic-resistance?Open linkView original on futurology.today
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.
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.