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These are two important breakthroughs in the fight against bacterial infections, but significantly more development of antibiotics will be needed in the future to fully address the underlying problem of antimicrobial resistance. (4/4)

#AMR #antibiotics #Bacteria #DrugDiscovery #gonorrhea #gonorrhoeae

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Stephan Hacker Dec 19

Helen Branswell Dec 12

#FDA has approved a new 1st-in-class oral antibiotic for the treatment of #gonorrhea, which has been making its way through the armamentarium of available antibiotics. Nuzolvence was brought to market through a private-public partnership involving @gardp.bsky.social. https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/12/fda-approves-zoliflodacin-gonorrhea-pill-marketed-as-nuzolvence/

FDA approves first new kind of drug to target gonorrhea in decades

The bacterium that causes gonorrhea has developed resistance to nearly every antibiotic used against it.

STAT

LoC Appreciation Society Nov 28

Stamp out syphilis and gonorrhea Have you had your blood test and examination : Go to your doctor or Dept. of Health. [between 1936 and 1938]
1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. | Poster encouraging blood testing and examinations to identify persons with syphilis and gonorrhea, showing a man pointing at the viewer.

#DepartmentofHealth #healthcare #color #syphilis #bloodtesting #gonorrhea #newyork(state) #posters #newyork #screenprints #photopgraphy #LibraryOfCongress

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98518375/

WHO Nov 19

The sexually transmitted disease #gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Countries need to 🛡️ Strengthen surveillance 🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity 💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections https://bit.ly/3XAo8we

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Oct 23

#A I-designed compounds can kill #drugresistant #bacteria
#MIT team used #artificialintelligence to design novel #antibiotics, two of which showed promise against #MRSA and #gonorrhea
Drugs are structurally distinct from any existing antibiotics, and appear to work by novel mechanisms that disrupt bacterial cell membranes. This makes them less vulnerable to antibiotic resistance, a growing problem: estimated drug-resistant bacterial infections cause nearly 5M deaths/yr.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/21/1124755/a-i-designed-compounds-can-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria/

A I-designed compounds can kill drug-resistant bacteria

An MIT team used artificial intelligence to design novel antibiotics, two of which showed promise against MRSA and gonorrhea.

MIT Technology Review

Arianne McClain Sep 3, 2025

Your Stories: As told with you by Maria Brink. #Posts #Cube #Gonorrhea
https://youtu.be/Y_-MVFF-VLQ?si=Ubexk_zU6ipk9fEh

Lisa Loeb - Stay - Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Nick Webber side-by-side comparison

First of all: I do not own any of the two videos shown here. All content belongs to their respective owners! I declare it as art how it looks like.Some peopl...

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Ingvar Santry Aug 28, 2025

AI develops new antibiotics for treating gonorrhea and MRSA.

I had hoped that one of the specialists would write about this work, but it was undeservedly overlooked. So, I'll tell you about it myself. Learn more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr94xxye2lo
#AI #Antibiotics #Gonorrhea #MRSA #Superbugs #Science #Health

AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA

Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

Ingvar Santry Aug 28, 2025

The main challenge turned out to be not the discovery, but the complexity of production. Out of the 80 most promising candidates against gonorrhea highlighted by the neural network, only two compounds could be synthesized. The rest are either too complex to obtain or require technologies we don't yet possess.
#DrugDevelopment #AI #Antibiotics #Challenges #Synthesis #Gonorrhea #Science

Ingvar Santry Aug 28, 2025

And now, it seems we have a new potential breakthrough. Researchers at MIT have discovered two promising compounds that, in lab settings and animal trials, eliminate drug-resistant gonorrhea and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
#MIT #Breakthrough #Antibiotics #Gonorrhea #MRSA #DrugResistant