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AI just designed entire viruses from scratch.

I came across this recently and honestly thought it sounded insane at first. Researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute used AI trained on DNA sequences to generate hundreds of new bacteriophage genomes. They synthesized 302 of them and tested them in the lab. 16 actually worked. I made a short…

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  1. 2026-09-29 05:38 · r/artificial
    AI just designed entire viruses from scratch.

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