{"id":209338,"date":"2026-05-05T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:10:11","slug":"artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of next-generation disinfectants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20260505\/Artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants.aspx\">Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of next-generation disinfectants<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20260505\/Artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants.aspx\">https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20260505\/Artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 22:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.news-medical.net\">www.news-medical.net<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chemists and computer scientists collaborated to use AI to discover new disinfectants to fight antibiotic-resistant &#8220;superbugs&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The team developed a computational-experimental framework to design quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs), achieving 11 new QACs effective against resistant bacteria.<\/li>\n<li>This work marks the first example of using AI to generate molecules specifically for disinfectants.<\/li>\n<li>The method included creating a large dataset of existing QAC molecules, feeding this data into a machine learning model, and then synthesizing and testing the AI-generated compounds.<\/li>\n<li>The AI-driven process significantly improved when the model was retrained with only the most potent QAC molecules, reducing invalid compounds and boosting the number of promising new candidates from 9% to 38%.<\/li>\n<li>The new, broad-spectrum QACs are now being studied further, and the framework has potential applications to speed discovery of other effective disinfectants.<\/li>\n<li>The project serves as a model for integrating AI with experimental chemistry, especially for fields lacking extensive data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of next-generation disinfectants https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20260505\/Artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-next-generation-disinfectants.aspx Publish Date: 2026-05-05 22:54:00 Source Domain: www.news-medical.net&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/image-handler\/picture\/2014\/7\/163926142-620x480.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-209338","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\/209338"}],"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=209338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209342,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209338\/revisions\/209342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}