First ever: AI-designed bacteriophages dosed to a human patient
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-10-21
Exnex launched Omnii-1, its most powerful genome language model and what it calls a major step toward general biological intelligence.
- In a world first, bacteriophages designed by Omnii-1 were administered to a human patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection under compassionate use.
- The team says training a single model across biology, rather than solving each problem separately, yielded surprising results not yet published.
- This marks a milestone for AI-generated biology entering human therapeutics, with implications for synthetic biology and antimicrobial resistance.
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