The scientist using AI to hunt for antibiotics just about everywhere
César de la Fuente is on a mission to combat antimicrobial resistance by looking at nature’s own solutions.
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The scientist using AI to hunt for antibiotics just about everywhere
"When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a..."
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16.02.2026 14:33
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EDEN: The AI system that learns from a million species to design new treatments
The model allows for the precise and complex modification of cells and molecules to cure diseases
📰 @elpais.com speaks with @delafuentelab.bsky.social — the first academic pioneer to work with EDEN, our evolutionary foundation model trained on 10B novel genetic sequences from 1M+ species. In the lab, it generated antimicrobial peptides with 97% success.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
24.02.2026 12:18
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Feliz y emocionado de volver a la Universidad de León para recibir el Doctorado Honoris Causa. Un reconocimiento que siento como un abrazo a mi historia y a todas las personas que me han acompañado en el camino. Gracias de corazón.
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20.02.2026 10:41
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Congratulations to @laparoscopes.bsky.social (@pennsurgery.bsky.social), @delafuentelab.bsky.social (@pennmicro.bsky.social), Julio Chirinos (@penncvi.bsky.social) & Seiji Isotani (@penngse.bsky.social) on being named Penn AI Discovering the Future of AI Awardees! tinyurl.com/2vbw96c5
18.02.2026 15:49
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The scientist using AI to hunt for antibiotics just about everywhere
César de la Fuente is on a mission to combat antimicrobial resistance by looking at nature’s own solutions.
Thanks to @technologyreview.com for spotlighting our mission to fight antimicrobial resistance—and to @stephenornes.bsky.social for telling the story. We’re using AI to mine evolution for new antibiotics and design novel therapeutics from scratch. Grateful to my amazing team.
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18.02.2026 09:18
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Great hosting @basecamp-research.bsky.social Jonathan Finn & Philipp Lorenz in our lab! Inspiring discussions on evolution, programmable therapeutics, and antibiotics. Excited for what we’ll build together next.
16.02.2026 09:58
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Un honor recibir el Premio Rafael Hervada de Investigación Biomédica, uno de los más prestigiosos de España, por nuestro trabajo usando IA para acelerar el descubrimiento de antibióticos. Gracias a la Fundación San Rafael y, sobre todo, a mi equipo por hacerlo posible.
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12.02.2026 09:45
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El científico coruñés César de la Fuente ha recibido este miércoles el Premio Rafael Hervada a la Investigación Biomédica 2025, uno de los reconocimientos más prestigiosos de innovación e investigación científica y médica en España #acoruña #coruña #lacoruña #galicia #quincemil15000
11.02.2026 19:04
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Thank you for the very inspiring visit! Incredible work being done @stowersinstitute.bsky.social
05.02.2026 20:01
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The Ancient Antibiotics Hidden Within Woolly Mammoth Biology
Discover how ancient DNA and AI combine to uncover powerful new antibiotics, offering hope in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
What if the next antibiotics come from AI, the human proteome, or even extinct species?
César de la Fuente on how AI is uncovering hidden antimicrobials—from human peptides to molecules resurrected from Neanderthals and mammoths.
Read the interview ➡️ www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discove...
29.01.2026 07:58
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Thank you @biotechniques.bsky.social for the opportunity to discuss how AI is changing the way we mine biology for new therapeutics. I enjoyed sharing our lab’s work using advanced AI models to expand the search space for novel antibiotics, especially as antimicrobial resistance continues to rise.
30.01.2026 08:51
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Resistente Keime: Künstliche Intelligenz soll bei der Suche nach neuen Antibiotika helfen
Die Suche nach neuen Antibiotika in der Natur läuft zu langsam. Jetzt soll künstliche Intelligenz den Kampf gegen resistente Erreger beschleunigen.
Neue #Antibiotika vom Algorithmus: @delafuentelab.bsky.social mischt mit künstlicher Intelligenz das Wettrennen gegen #Antibiotikaresistenzen auf. Die potenziellen KI-Wirkstoffe müssen sich aber trotzdem noch im Labor bewähren. via #Deutschlandfunk. #AMR www.deutschlandfunk.de/designer-ant...
28.01.2026 08:19
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Sharing our @chemicalscience.rsc.org review on how #chemoinformatics and bioinformatics are reshaping the #peptide #chemicalspace. Kudos @delafuentelab.bsky.social @edgarlopez2.bsky.social Massyel, Jean-Paul.
👉https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2026/sc/d5sc04465k
18.01.2026 18:44
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What would it take for one AI system to design gene therapies, cell therapies, and antibiotics?
@faylinphd.bsky.social explores how EDEN was built to test that idea — using trillions of tokens of evolutionary DNA to learn biology’s underlying rules.
Read it here: www.genengnews.com/topics/artif...
15.01.2026 17:55
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Introducing EDEN — a 28B-parameter biological foundation model trained on 9.7T nucleotide tokens, including >10B novel genes from >1M species. This evolutionary scale is what makes generalisable biological design possible.
Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
15.01.2026 16:42
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Nvidia and Microsoft back AI breakthrough for gene therapies
UK’s Basecamp Research uses species genomic sequence database to tackle cancers and superbugs
How combining AI with genetic databases can harness lessons from evolution to develop new diseases treatments.
An international collaboration using information from more than 1mn species offers potential solutions to problems from cancers to drug-resistant superbugs.
www.ft.com/content/29ec...
12.01.2026 20:32
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Thank you so much. You are too kind!
13.01.2026 14:44
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Thrilled to share EDEN — a DNA-scale foundation model built with @basecamp-research.bsky.social + NVIDIA partly validated by our lab @upenn.edu .
Trained on 1M+ new species, it designs novel antibiotics with 97% success. Biodiversity at scale = models that generalize and design.
bit.ly/3NpMR4B
12.01.2026 18:29
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