A Mammoth Antibiotic Advance

The search for potential future antibiotics now stretches back to our past, as well. A profile of César de la Fuente, PhD, a Presidential Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Microbiology, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Bioengineering, shares his lab’s work on the concept of “molecular de-extinction” which uses artificial intelligence to source novel antibiotic compounds in proteins from extinct organisms.