The latest AI breakthrough has all the makings of a terrifying disaster movie.

Scientists at Stanford University and the Arc Institute have crossed a line that, until this week, existed only as a ...

Of the 302 AI-generated designs the team synthesized, 16 turned out to be fully functional, capable of infecting and killing ...

Biosafety and biosecurity experts are concerned that using AI models to create synthetic viruses could spark the next pandemic.

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Scientists have used an AI model to successfully create a virus not found in nature, sparking concerns about a potential ...

“Although this is promising for life sciences applications, it also raises urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions,” the ...

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to design complete, functioning viruses with genomes never seen before in nature ...

Researchers have used a specialized AI model to generate new viruses that successfully infected and killed their bacterial ...

For decades, genetic engineering meant working with existing sequences — cutting, splicing, and modifying what natural evolution had already produced. The Evo models used in this research do something ...

Scientists used an artificial intelligence program to create new viral genomes that are different from any known natural ...

For billions of years, viruses have been written by evolution. As of Thursday, they are also being written by an algorithm — and 16 of the results are alive, replicating inside bacteria in a Palo Alto ...