AI invents potential antibiotics for drug-resistant super bugs

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to invent two potential new antibiotics capable of killing drug-resistant super bugs. 

Years of research and clinical trials lie ahead, but researchers say the technology could spark a second golden age of antibiotic discovery.

The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say the new drugs could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, a skin infection.

ABC NewsRadio’s Sarah Morice spoke with Jim Collins, a Professor of Medical Engineering & Science at MIT, who worked on this.