For the World Economic Forum, Alexandros Pantalis and Ithri Benamara explain how AI is bringing back phages, a century-old answer to resistant bacteria.
Phages were named at the Pasteur Institute in 1917, then pushed aside by penicillin. The hard part was matching: finding the right phage for a strain meant testing them one by one in the lab.
Our CEO Alexandros Pantalis and Ithri Benamara explain how AI changes that. Models read a phage’s genome to predict which bacteria it kills, and help design cocktails that bacteria struggle to escape.