AI-designed viruses from scratch: 302 phage genomes synthesized, 16 worked
CallRevolutionary894 · reddit · 2026-09-29
Researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute used AI trained on DNA sequences to generate hundreds of novel bacteriophage genomes, synthesized 302 of them, and tested them in the lab — 16 actually worked. A significant step from AI-generated genetic code to working biology, with a visual breakdown of the experiment circulating online.
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