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World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life

World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life

AI-designed bacteriophages were capable of infecting and killing host bacteria. Credit: Lee D. Simon/Science Photo Library Scientists have created the first ever viruses designed by artificial intelligence (AI), and they’re capable of hunting down and killing strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli). “This is the first time AI systems are able to write coherent genome-scale sequences,” says Brian Hie, a …

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