Pure Science with Sandhya Ramesh: post #286 — TG.ME

For the first time, AI has designed functional viruses

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For the first time, AI has designed functional viruses
For the first time, scientists have used generative AI to design complete viral genomes from scratch, and some of them actually worked. Researchers at Stanford used AI models Evo 1 and Evo 2 to design new bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. Of 302…
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