“On a quiet morning in an Australian laboratory, a revolution unfolded—not with the roar of engines or the crackle of rocket fuel, but in the invisible world of proteins.

In mere seconds, a computer spat out a molecule that could destroy one of humanity’s deadliest foes: drug-resistant bacteria. It was a protein that didn’t exist in nature. It had never evolved through eons of survival-of-the-fittest. Instead, it was designed, atom by atom, by artificial intelligence.

And it worked.

This astonishing leap, led by researchers from the University of Melbourne’s Bio21 Institute and Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, marks the first time Australian scientists have used AI to generate a fully functional biological protein—a weapon capable of killing antibiotic-resistant superbugs like E. coli.”

From Science News Today.