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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. (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

More antibiotics is not the solution. We need to be moving away from antibiotics, and drastically decreasing their use/overuse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Think they would be able to make some sort of artificial FMT

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/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are FMT?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You take someone's poop and put it up your butt.

Fecal microbiota transplantation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Ah, thanks. I'd heard of that, but wasn't familiar with the initialism.