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UK. Now first this week while the world races to find drugs and a vaccine to

combat the COVID-19 coronavirus we also face an ongoing significant threat from antibiotic resistant

bacteria.

But now researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have announced that they've been

using artificial intelligence, in other words computers that can think for themselves,

to dream up new infection-fighting drugs.

They've used the new system to discover an antibiotic called Halacin, and it's proving

to be very good at stopping bacterial superbug infections in experimental

mice and could soon be tested on people. The other piece of good news is that this AI system

might also help to develop drugs to fight the new

coronavirus too.

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