AI-designed phages used on a human patient for the first time to treat drug-resistant infection
HazyResearch · x · 2026-10-21
Bio startup Radical Numerics announced a milestone: bacteriophages designed by its multimodal genome model Omnii-1 were used to treat a patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection.
This is the first clinical use of AI-generated phages in a human, marking the jump from "AI-designed biomolecules" to actually saving a patient.
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