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Scientists Asked AI To Create New Viruses. It Invented 16 That Never Existed Before
For decades, scientists have searched nature for viruses that could help tackle some of medicine’s toughest problems. This time, they tried something completely different. Instead of hunting for naturally occurring viruses, researchers asked artificial intelligence to design entirely new ones from scratch. What happened next surprised even the experts. Out of thousands of AI-generated genetic…
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The Human Genome Has Now Been Mapped At The Smallest Level Possible
For more than two decades, scientists have known the full sequence of the human genome, a catalogue of roughly three billion DNA letters that together encode everything from eye color to disease risk. That achievement reshaped biology, but it also left behind a lingering question that sequencing alone could not answer. Knowing the letters of…
