How AI and microscopes can help fight infection
4 June 2024 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png
In this film Serge Mostowy and Ana López Jiménez discuss using AI-powered microscopy to study Shigella, a bacterium estimated to have killed 148,000 people in 2019, at unprecedented scale.
Their latest research, published in the journal eLife, demonstrates how this cutting-edge technology is accelerating the potential discovery of new drug targets and treatments for antimicrobial resistant infections.
Antimicrobial resistance is a major health issue, and this research highlights how LSHTM scientists are harnessing technology to see further ahead and act faster to find real world solutions to this key challenge.
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