{"id":189920,"date":"2026-02-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/the-scientist-using-ai-to-hunt-for-antibiotics-just-about-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:25:27","slug":"the-scientist-using-ai-to-hunt-for-antibiotics-just-about-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/the-scientist-using-ai-to-hunt-for-antibiotics-just-about-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The scientist using AI to hunt for antibiotics just about everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/02\/16\/1132516\/cesar-de-la-fuente-using-ai-antibiotics-hunt\/\">The scientist using AI to hunt for antibiotics just about everywhere<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/02\/16\/1132516\/cesar-de-la-fuente-using-ai-antibiotics-hunt\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/02\/16\/1132516\/cesar-de-la-fuente-using-ai-antibiotics-hunt\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.technologyreview.com\">www.technologyreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C\u00e9sar de la Fuente and his team at the University of Pennsylvania are using artificial intelligence to search genomes for peptides with antibiotic properties.<\/li>\n<li>His research aims to develop new antimicrobial compounds by combining peptides in configurations that may not occur in nature.<\/li>\n<li>The team has discovered peptides in ancient single-celled organisms (archaea), as well as in the venom of snakes, wasps, and spiders.<\/li>\n<li>De la Fuente&#8217;s research includes a project to find antimicrobial capabilities in the genetic sequences of extinct species such as woolly mammoths, Neanderthals, and ancient megafauna. <\/li>\n<li>De la Fuente has earned numerous awards and recognition for his innovative use of computational approaches in antibiotic discovery. <\/li>\n<li>Antimicrobial resistance is described as a significant global challenge that requires innovative solutions due to the high cost and difficulty of traditional methods.<\/li>\n<li>De la Fuente believes that exploring the potential of ancient and unconventional sources can lead to breakthroughs in combating resistant microbes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientist using AI to hunt for antibiotics just about everywhere https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/02\/16\/1132516\/cesar-de-la-fuente-using-ai-antibiotics-hunt\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-16&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wp.technologyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DSC9306_social.jpg?resize=1200,600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-189920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189922,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189920\/revisions\/189922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}