Ben Luisi

Professor of Structural and Molecular Cell Biology in the University of Cambridge Department of Biochemistry, where his research focuses on structural biology of RNA-mediated gene regulation, bacterial transport systems, and mechanisms relevant to bacterial virulence and drug resistance.

AI Is Compressing Antibiotic Resistance Research From Years to Minutes

University of Cambridge structural biologist Ben Luisi argues that antimicrobial resistance is a permanent race against bacterial adaptation, not a problem that can be solved with one new drug. In a Google DeepMind source, Luisi and colleagues Martin Welch and Marta Wojnowska say tools including AlphaFold, Gemini and Co-Scientist are changing the pace and scope of that race by compressing structural analysis from years to minutes, widening hypothesis generation and surfacing biological patterns researchers might otherwise miss.

Google DeepMindMay 19, 20265 min read