AI found new antibiotics hidden in a woolly mammoth.

[00:00:00]The next antibiotic may come from the past.

[00:00:03]Drug-resistant bacteria kill more people every year. So, scientists pointed an AI at the problem.

[00:00:10]It read through millions of ancient proteins, including molecules from animals long extinct, a woolly mammoth, creatures long gone, and it found tens of thousands of candidates.

[00:00:25]Each one attacking today's superbugs in a new way.

[00:00:29]They call it molecular de-extinction.

[00:00:32]The cure for tomorrow may be written in the past.

[00:00:35]We just needed a new way to read it.