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[โ€“] Albbi@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've been around the AMR space for a while, but only as a collaborator. Have helped do some bacterial assemblies and help find methods of detecting ICE. I'm a bioinformatician so I get to jump onto a bunch of different projects.

AMR is scary and not really in the public knowledge of upcoming issues. I think about it every time my son had an infection while he was very young and hope he didn't get a resistant strain.

[โ€“] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So are there any good news in this respect?

[โ€“] Albbi@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There was a paper back in December about a new class of antibiotics being discovered thanks to the use of Deep Learning.

This looks like a decent writeup about it, the paper itself is not open access

This is very welcome as it has been a long time since the last new class of antibiotics was discovered. Here's a good paper that talks about the timeline of antibiotics

It's been a little while since I took the AMR course, so I'll let the papers speak for themselves instead of trying to quiz myself here on Lemmy.