Antimicrobial resistance
Resistant infections were directly responsible for over a million deaths in 2019. Few new antibiotic classes have been discovered since the 1980s, largely because they earn too little to justify development. Machine-learning screens have found candidates such as halicin and abaucin, and pull incentives such as subscription payments are being tried to fix the economics.
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