"We're nowhere near ready for a world in which artificial intelligence can create a working virus." The post Experts Alarmed ...

Scripps professor Sumit Chanda says improving coronavirus care is especially important to get ahead of any future mutations ...

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Tal Feldman is a student at Yale Law School who formerly built AI and data tools for U.S. government agencies. Jonathan ...

After probing the AI model, the team came up with 302 virus designs. The best way to test them, the researchers figured, was ...

Stanford AI wrote full viral genomes that worked—16 lab-built phages show life can now be designed, not just discovered.

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The term “gain of function” is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts ...

Brendan Straut '24 and Dr. Anna Kloc, his thesis adviser, in the lab. Throughout his time as a Charger, Brendan Straut '24 has had exciting experiences across campus. He's made connections and ...

Scientists around the world are working to revive ancient ice-capsulated cells to find new sources of life-saving medicine and possibly bring back a long-extinct species, like the dodo bird. The ...

Researchers describe the full molecular structure of the phage DEV. DEV infects and lyses Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, an opportunistic pathogen in cystic fibrosis and other diseases. DEV is part ...