Artificial intelligence has designed viruses that can infect bacteria and reproduce—a first that shows AI is beginning to do ...

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Explore the implications of AI in designing viruses, highlighting opportunities in medicine and biosecurity challenges.

Britain is considering tighter AI and synthetic DNA safeguards to reduce biological threats. Image: National Cancer Institute/Unsplash The UK is considering tighter synthetic DNA screening and AI ...

Scientists have synthesized the first functional viruses with AI-generated genetic sequences drawing attention from biosecurity researchers.

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A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious project that aimed to map every cell in the human body.

Researchers reconstructed a complete diploid human genome, adding missing sequence and resolving both parental haplotypes.

Using the power of quantum computing, IBM has just made an important breakthrough in the decades-long challenge with creating ...

The team’s approach, which combines synthetic biology expertise, artificial intelligence, and statistical mapping techniques, enables rapid, precise reprogramming of bacteria as biotechnology tools, ...

The decades-old scientific quest to create brand-new proteins has been turbocharged in the era of artificial intelligence.