The global rise in antibiotic resistances is a cause for concern. New substances are needed to treat infections. But these antibiotics will not necessarily be produced in chemical labs. Many can be found in nature. Marine biologists analyzed microorganisms that live on seaweed and discovered that some of them produce antimicrobial compounds. Some of these compounds are even more active against drug resistant pathogens than the broad-spectrum antibiotic chloramphenicol.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 13h
Reminds me of this post: #716751.
As humans we are not as creative as randomly mutating organisms in nature at coming up with new tricks to fight bacteria, break down plastic, etc...
As a side-thought, it pains me to say, but when I see machine learning approaches brute-forcing problems that traditional physicists have been tackling by hand outperforming said physicists, I wonder what the future of said physicists will be.
There is beauty in solving something by making logical connections and building up to a solution... I see less beauty in data mining millions of compounds to see which one shows the best electronic properties. Yet, the latter pays off, so who am I to say~~
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @xiaohong520tyz 16h outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.