Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics - that could kill superbugs

BBC reports Massachusetts Institute of Technology used AI to invent drugs atom-by-atom - to combat drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA.

In laboratory and animal tests the antibiotics killed the two superbugs.

Years of refinement and clinical trials are needed before they can be used.

MIT researchers say AI could start a second golden age in antibiotic discovery, especially tackling resistant infections.