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AI tool has solved the scientific problem of antibiotic resistance in some superbugs, which kills millions of people every year, in just two days, a problem that took researchers at Imperial College London more than 10 years to solve, Live Science reports .
A team of scientists led by Professor of Microbiology José Penades studied bacteriophages called cf-PICIs, which can infect a variety of bacteria. They hypothesized that some viruses use the tails of others to insert their DNA into the host bacterial cell. The experiments confirmed the hypothesis, revealing a groundbreaking mechanism for horizontal gene transfer that the scientific community had not previously known about.
Before anyone on the team shared their findings publicly, the researchers posed this very question to Google’s AI co-scientist tool, which was designed to assist in scientific research. Over the course of two days, the algorithm came up with several possible answers, one of which matched their hypothesis perfectly. 0 reply
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