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Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute used AI models Evo 1 and Evo 2 to design 16 new viral genomes never seen in nature, producing bacteriophages that infected and killed E. coli i…

Researchers at Stanford University and other institutions used generative AI models Evo1 and Evo2 to design 16 novel bacteriophages that successfully infected and killed E. coli bacteria, marking the …

A Stanford- and Arc Institute-led team reported in Science on August 6 that genome language models generated complete bacteriophage genomes, 16 of which proved viable in laboratory tests. The research…