Scientists are bringing molecules back from the dead in quest to fight superbugs
The quest for new antibiotics is going back to the Stone Age.
The urgency to identify possible candidates has never been greater as the global population faces nearly 5 million deaths every year that are associated with microbial resistance, according to the World Health Organisation.
A research team led by bioengineering pioneer César de la Fuente is using artificial intelligence-based computational methods to mine genetic information from extinct human relatives such as Neanderthals and long-gone ice age creatures such as the woolly mammoth and giant sloth.
A figure of a Neanderthal man is seen at London's Natural History Museum. Researchers are using AI-based computational methods to mine genetic information from extinct human relatives such as Neanderthals. (CNN)
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