Stanford researchers used AI to design blueprints for 16 bacteriophages that kill antibiotic-resistant E. coli. While offering promise for new treatments, the breakthrough raises dual-use concerns about AI potentially being misused to engineer harmful pathogens in unsafe hands
Viruses have a bad reputation. They are responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic and a long list of maladies that have plagued humanity since time immemorial. But, is there anything to celebrate about them? Power of bacterial viruses Bacteriophages, or phages for short, keep bacterial populations in check, both on land and at sea. They kill […]
Various aspects of antimicrobial resistance were discussed in a two-day international webinar on antibiotic resistance jointly organised by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and American Society for Microbiology.
