Antibiotics have been a cornerstone of modern medicine, saving countless lives since their discovery. However, the world is now facing an alarming rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which ...

Nearly a century ago, Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin sparked a revolution in medicine and transformed the fight against infectious diseases. Antibiotics, alongside improvements ...

In 2026, AI moved from experimental promise to clinical reality, delivering breakthroughs in drug discovery, emergency diagnostics, and workflow automation. From Insilico Medicine’s rapid development ...

In the “Golden Age” of antibiotic discovery during the 1950s and ’60s, pharmaceutical companies, research institutions and scientists joined forces in a global hunt for life-saving compounds. They ...

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of drastically speeding up drug discovery—and, in early tests, it has already designed a ...

In all the worthy discussions around the promise and peril of AI, we may be overlooking one of its most powerful use cases: solving urgent global health crises. Few problems illustrate this better ...

Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed. The drugs were designed atom-by-atom by the AI and ...

Membrane proteins present significant technical challenges in drug discovery, yet their role in biology make them highly ...

In the summer of 1928, Alexander Fleming, an English biologist, accidentally discovered that the mold Penicillium notatum inhibits bacterial growth. Fleming’s serendipitous finding brought ...

AI drug discovery firm Isomorphic Labs secured a massive $2.1 billion funding round, aiming to accelerate its mission to cure ...

In every backyard, park, and playground on Earth, the ground is teeming with a type of bacteria called Streptomyces—one of ...