Artificial intelligence has designed viruses that can infect bacteria and reproduce—a first that shows AI is beginning to do ...

While these viruses could offer a new weapon in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, the breakthrough also raises ...

AI can now read and edit DNA. That has tremendous upside, medically. But it also has enormous dangers, including deepfaked biological viruses.

There is perhaps no clearer illustration of the promise and perils of artificial intelligence than its ability to design new ...

In a world first, scientists led by a team from Stanford University have created 16 viable viruses that do not exist in nature and were designed by AI. Their experiment, which is published in Science, ...

From AI models to synthetic DNA screening and outbreak surveillance, there are several points where emerging biological risks ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

In a new study, researchers showed that they could use AI to design 16 functioning viruses not found in nature. The new research fuels concerns that AI could one day create a new category of ...

Scientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence.

Scientists uncovered how influenza A commandeers human cells, including a surprising strategy that dissolves tiny structures in the nucleus and releases proteins the virus may use to reproduce. The ...

Future Marines recite the oath of enlistment at Military Entrance Processing Station, Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 24, 2022. (Cpl. Lydia Gordon/U.S. Marine Corps) Fearing that its new plans for the U ...

Scientists have completed the first comprehensive survey of the microscopic life living in the open waters of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. They have uncovered hundreds of bacterial species which ...