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AI-designed drugs give scientists foothold in mission to fight superbugs

The AI system analysed more than 45 million molecular fragments, using machine learning algorithms to predict which combinations might kill bacteria while remaining safe for human cells. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
science
Updated on Aug 18, 2025 02:09 am IST

New IIT Roorkee discovery offers hope against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

The newly discovered molecule belongs to a class of β-lactamase inhibitor drugs that prevent bacterial enzymes from breaking down life-saving antibiotics.
news
Published on Aug 11, 2025 05:59 pm IST

Superbugs threaten lives and may cost $2 trillion a year by 2050: Report

The study named ‘Forecasting the Fallout from AMR: Economic Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans’ highlighted the economic cost of superbugs
world news
Published on Jul 21, 2025 12:52 pm IST

How war zones fuel rise of ‘superbugs’ and their spread across borders

A Palestinian man wounded in an Israeli fire is transported on a donkey cart, following a delay in the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas over the hostage list, in the northern Gaza Strip, January 19, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
world news
Updated on Jan 25, 2025 01:25 pm IST

Superbugs: Is this global health threat potentially worse than Covid-19?

Superbugs vs Covid-19: Comparing scale and severity of global health threats, preparing for next health catastrophe
health
Published on Jun 22, 2024 01:11 pm IST

Sunita Williams aboard ISS: ‘Superbug’ discovery raises ‘health concerns’

This screengrab from NASA shows astronaut Suni Williams (seated L) and Butch Wilmore (seated R) posing with the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) after the docking of the Boeing Starliner on June 6, 2024.
world news
Published on Jun 11, 2024 10:48 am IST

‘Don’t know how big the threat is’: Deadly bacteria detected in soda fountains

‘We don’t know how big the threat is’: Study detects deadly ‘superbug’ bacteria in soda fountains
health
Published on Oct 11, 2023 01:46 pm IST

SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING | Will AI help us beat superbugs?

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Can artificial intelligence (AI) help beat superbugs?
opinion
Updated on Jun 21, 2023 10:48 am IST

Superbug infections, deaths rose at beginning of pandemic

Before the pandemic, health officials said U.S. superbug infections appeared to be going down
health
Updated on Jul 14, 2022 04:14 pm IST

Anti-biotic resistant superbugs killed 1.2 million people in 2019, claims study

Superbug is a strain of bacteria that has become resistant to antibiotic drugs.
world news
Published on Jan 20, 2022 09:04 am IST

The growing peril of drug-resistant superbugs

Nurses wear masks and gloves to avoid spreading infection at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Government Medical College in Ernakulam, Kerala.
india news
Updated on Feb 05, 2020 09:25 pm IST

At a Delhi exhibition, superbugs and the end of antibiotics

People visiting the exhibition will also be able to see samples of the most common bacteria through a magnifying glass.
india news
Updated on Sept 30, 2019 11:50 am IST

‘Superbug’ first identified in Delhi surfaces in Arctic region

The gene was first discovered in 2008 in a Swedish patient who had been to New Delhi, but got attention in 2010 when researchers published a paper on it.
india news
Updated on Jan 29, 2019 07:35 am IST

Drug-resistant superbugs are spreading, and fast

Jean Lee, a PhD student at Melbourne's Doherty Institute, displays the superbug Staphylcocus epidermidis on an agar plate in Melbourne on September 4, 2018
editorials
Published on Sept 10, 2018 12:46 pm IST

Superbugs are growing resistant to handwash and sanitisers

Hand rubs and washes that contain disinfectants based on isopropyl or ethyl alcohol are widely used around the world, and have cut down dramatically on one type of superbug.
health
Updated on Aug 02, 2018 11:21 am IST

Beware, injectable drug users are at risk of superbug infections

While overdose deaths have been the main concern, studies have noted that HIV and hepatitis C infections are spreading among drug users.
health
Updated on Jun 08, 2018 10:37 am IST
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