AI just created a virus that kills bacteria—should we be scared?

Stanford and Arc Institute used AI to design viruses that kill bacteria, sparking hope for new therapies and warnings over biosecurity risks.
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Stanford AI Creates First Virus for Antibiotic-Resistant E. coli

AI Creates Viruses for the First Time Researchers at Stanford University in the U.S. successfully designed the first virus ...

Major advance: Stanford researchers use AI to design viruses; warn of dangers if technology misused

Researchers have successfully used artificial intelligence to design viral genomes, which were then constructed and tested in a lab setting. The AI-generated viruses effectively infected bacteria, ...
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How a tick-borne virus enters human cells

Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the cellular gateway ...

Escape from PARIS: Virus smuggles RNA into bacterial cell to survive immunity

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered ...

Q&A: How viruses build perfectly symmetrical protective shells

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) ...
Nature

How a dangerous tick-borne virus sneaks into the brain

Protein on the surface of brain cells appears to play a key role in disease progression — plus, a bot explores what might have happened to research if the Trump’s teams funding cuts had happened 10 ...