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Spotlight: May 26, 2023

Using AI to sift through thousands of compounds, researchers have identified a new antibiotic drug that kills Acinetobacter baumannii. The microbe is “public enemy number one for multidrug-resistant bacterial infections,” says Jonathan Stokes.

May 26, 2023

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