With the aid of AI, scientists have identified a potential new antibiotic to treat gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that's increasingly resistant to drugs. The newfound antibiotic has shown promise in lab experiments involving a "vagina on a chip," researchers report in a new study.

"There's an urgent need to address antibiotic resistance in gonorrhea, and discovering new antibiotics is one of the key strategies," Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, a clinical professor at the University of Southern California who was not involved with the work, told Live Science. "It's exciting to see the application of AI in this area of public health."