AI designed 16 brand-new viruses that can infect bacteria
mooreds · hn · 2026-09-12
Per Morning Brew, researchers used AI to design 16 brand-new viruses, some of which successfully infected bacteria. The work demonstrates a leap in AI-driven biological design capability — and raises serious biosecurity concerns, since similar methods could in theory be used to design harmful pathogens.
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