用人工智能搜寻抗生素的科学家

César de la Fuente is on a mission to combat antimicrobial resistance, by building on solutions nature has already found. By Stephen Ornes Portrait by Anthony Wood When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were spending to solve them. Antimicrobial resistance topped the list. His vision is to assemble those peptides—molecules made of up to 50 amino acids linked together—into various configurations, including some never seen in nature. The results, he hopes, could defend the body against microbes that withstand traditional treatments. His quest has unearthed promising candidates in unexpected places. …