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LughMA to FuturologyEnglish · 1 year ago

AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study: Algorithm to mine ‘the entirety of the microbial diversity’ on Earth, speeding up antibiotic resistance research.

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AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study: Algorithm to mine ‘the entirety of the microbial diversity’ on Earth, speeding up antibiotic resistance research.

www.theguardian.com

LughMA to FuturologyEnglish · 1 year ago
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    I’m surprised FMT aren’t a bigger thing.

    Think they would be able to make some sort of artificial FMT. Probiotics aren’t enough.

    I know personally I have taken a boat load of antibiotics as a child and I took some for Cellulitis which because it was a skin infection required a high daily dose, never been the same since.

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      Think they would be able to make some sort of artificial FMT

      We’re a long way (many decades) off from that. This blog goes into more detail with references: https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/stool-donors-one-in-a-million-ai-funding-potential

      One of which is this page that shows the severe limits of current knowledge: https://humanmicrobiome.info/testing/

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      What are FMT?

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        You take someone’s poop and put it up your butt.

        Fecal microbiota transplantation.

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          Ah, thanks. I’d heard of that, but wasn’t familiar with the initialism.

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